Maasai Mara, Kenya hosts the greatest wildlife safaris in the world
Adventure trips, luxury beach resorts, game reserves and national parks are associated with Kenya as this African country dish out a variety of holiday offers and destinations to willing tourists. Being endowed with the most natural scenic beauty and wildlife Kenya stands out as the most desired destination for vacationers and adventurers. Tour destinations in Kenya can be generally divided between safaris and beach resorts and both offer plenty of choices to visitors.
Major portions of the Kenyan tourism industry revolve around safaris and national parks and Game reserves tours but tourists who come here mainly sought out to see the country’s cultural wealth and explore places like Mobasa and Lamu located on the coast. The Maasai Mara National Reserve houses a great number of Maasai villages and the natural beaches situated along the coast offers a huge variety of entertainment and sports to water enthusiasts. Water boarding, wind surfing and surfing occupies the time in the beaches and Kenyan tourism has been acclaimed by the world when it received the Best Leisure Destination award in 2008.
One of the most memorable experiences for a vacationer would be the travel to the Maasai Mara which is largely known as Maasai Mara National Reserve, and it happens to be the largest among the game reserves which spread into the Mara Regon of Tanzania. The place is world famous for its extraordinary population of Masai lions, Tanzanian cheetahs, African leopards, Thomson’s gazelle and the migration of wildbeasts starting from July to October every year from Serengeti. It is known as the Great Migration and it is a sight to behold. Safaris organized by travel planners to witness the exodus and the entire lot of the "Big Five" family that include lions, leopards, African buffalo, African elephant and black rhinoceros are the primary inhabitants of Maasai Mara.
The Maasai Mara game reserves offers more in the animal species and they would include Hippopotami, Nile crocodiles, hyenas, jackals, bat eared foxes and the plains of the Mara River as well as the Esoit Siria Escarpment offers the best view of games especially the lions and cheetahs. Great Migration is the most anticipated annual event in the world and it involves a staggering statistics of 1,300,000 wildebeest, 97,000 Topi, 500,000 Thomson Gazelles, 200, 000 zebras and 18,000 elands. The Maasai Mara also is the habitat for 470 species of bird population that include 60 species of raptors. Visit Maasai Mara and it is going to be a wonderful experience.