Where Would One Stay In Maasai Mara? Maasai Mara National park is located within the Southwestern region of Kenya and it is considered as the most visited game park in the country, which covers a total surface area of about 1510 square kilometers. Maasai Mara National park was first gazette as a wildlife sanctuary in 1948 and it was later established as a national park in 1961. More so, this national park shares boarders with other parks like Serengeti National park, which is found in Tanzania. Maasai Mara National park is ranked as one of the top destinations that an individual can ever choose to travel to while on their adventurous safari in Kenya because it is known to be surrounded with open flat grasslands, beautiful landscapes, dense forests which act as good natural habitats to many wildlife species which are seen as the top tourist attractions with in the park. Therefore, exploring within Maasai Mara blesses tourists with opportunities to sight see at animals like; hippos, hyenas, leopards, zebras, cheetahs, African elephants, impalas, rhinos, jackals, wildebeests, and many others.
more so, this national park is a good destination for birding safaris due to the fact that it harbours around 570 bird species such as; turaco, bustard, jacanas, mouse bird, grey-headed king fisher, southern ground hornbill, haerkop, African wood owl, saddle-billed stork, white-tailed lark, little stint, African green pigeon, marsh owl, African hoope, woolly necked stork, black headed heron, stripped king fisher, grey kestrel, African olive pigeon, little bee eater, African marhs harrier, white throated bee-eater, African hawk eagle among others.
In Maasai Mara National park, there are so many more attractions, which lead many tourists to travel from different parts of the world to visit the park. and some of these attractions include; the wildebeest migration which is considered as the top event that happens within this park and it takes place once in a year between months of July to September, the Mara river, the Masai culture where tourists always have a lot to learn such as; about their daily lifestyle, dress code, how they prepare their local meals, how they speak their local languages, learn more about the history of the local people after paying a lot of attention from their stories and watch their traditional dance performances. More so, tourists can visit the trans-Mara county council, Ol Kinyei conservancy, the Mara North conservancy, Olare ork conservancy, Ol choro Oiroua conservancy, Lamek conservancy and many others. And touring around this national park gives you chances to engage in many exciting activities such as; Bird watching, wildlife viewing, horseback riding, camping, guided nature walks, maasai cultural encounters, hot air balloon safaris, visiting the masai villages, guided nature walks and many others.
Accommodation facilities in Maasai Mara National Park.
Maasai Mara National park has so many lodging facilities where tourists can stay after their long day of touring around many different areas within the park. However, these accommodation facilities are always ranged differently such as; from mid-range, budget and luxury. And all these safari lodges offer their guests with amenities like; free WI-FI which is always available for 24 hours and it enables guests to maintain clear communication with their people back at home, good restaurant which has well experienced chefs and waiters who serve guests with delicious meals which are either international and local depending on what one would love to eat, laundry and ironing services, a 24 hour tight security in order to ensure the safety of their guests, a 24 hour room service hence helping guests to be attended to at any hour they are in need of something, free parking for those who come through driving their personal cars and many others.
Therefore, some of these safari lodges include the following; Porini lion camp which is located within the private Olare Motogori conservancy which is famously known for its super big cats, sand river lodge, Mara Bush house, Saruni Mara lodge which is considered as one of the best lodges and it is ranged as a luxury lodge that consists of Persian carpets, wide cedarwood beds, boasting antiques among others. more so, there many other accommodation facilities like; Sala’s camp which is situated within the Mara’s Northern corridor and this lodge is one of the forst lodges to witness the wildebeest migration from seregenti national park to Mara, Kichwa Tembo tented camp, Mara Intrepids camp, Angama Mara, cottar’s 1920s camp, Rekeero camp, Naboisho camp which is was established as a community initiative, elephant pepper camp, Sanctaury Olonana is a safari lodge which is situated within a forest along a private stretch of the Mara river and it is ranked to be the best of one Mara’s hotels, little Governor’s camp, Governor’s 11 moran camp which is hight recommended for honeymooners and it is made of 10 luxurious tents and many others.
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