The Masai Mara National Reserve

The Masai Mara is Kenya’s finest wildlife sanctuary and is widely considered to be Africa’s greatest wildlife reserve. Immortalized in books and films such as Out of Africa everything about this national reserve is outstanding.The Masai Mara area has seen more than its fair share of controversy. The reserve originally created in the 1960’s was set aside as a game reserve. This soon resulted in a conflict with the Maasai, a nomadic Kenya tribe, that have maintained their cultural way of life, because of the huge displacement of their villages and livestock. The Mara was originally one of the grazing areas for Maasai livestock and manyatta. Read more