Maasai Mara) is a 1,510km2 nature reserve
in south-western Kenya that adjoins
Tanzania's 14,763km2 Serengeti National
Park. These two reserves are where the
greatest wildlife drama on earth plays out
every year between July and October, known
as the Great Migration.
Ngorongoro area of the southern Serengeti
gradually begin a journey in search of greener
pastures, that will take them northwest, across
endless plains, in the face of mortal danger,
to eventually start arriving at the Masai Mara
between July and August.
exact a heavy toll of its travellers. Hunger,
thirst, exhaustion, drowning and predators,
which include lion, cheetah, hyena,
leopard and crocodiles, will see to it that
as many as 250,000 of the migrant animals
pay for this journey with their lives. Joining
them on their trek will be approximately
750,000 zebra and hundreds of thousands
of other plains game.
balloon safari, takes place between late July
and early August. Having followed the rains,