About Masai Mara
Safarilink operates flights to and from the Maasai Mara, stopping at
any of the eight major airstrips passengers require. Passengers
returning from Amboseli, Kapese, Kilimanjaro, Lewa, Lodwar, Loisaba,
Naivasha, Nanyuki, Samburu and Tsavo West can connect directly to
Safarilink's afternoon flight to the Maasai Mara.
The most famous wildlife area in Kenya, the Maasai Mara National
Reserve is known not only for the annual great migration, but for
year-round exceptional and abundant wildlife. Over
100 mammal species are found here, including the
Big Five, and over 450 bird species. Game viewing
here is second to none.
The Maasai Mara, designated a national reserve in 1974, is part of
the greater Serengeti Mara ecosystem, formed of the Serengeti in
Tanzania, the Maasai Mara in Kenya and the surrounding conservancies
and group ranches. It is through this ecosystem, an area of around
40,000km², that around
1.5 million wildebeest, along with Thomson's
gazelles, zebras and eland, move in a perpetual circuit known as the
great migration.
The reserve's name comes from the Maasai, a nomadic Nilotic people
famed as warriors, and Mara, meaning mottled in the language of the
Maasai, a reference to the savannah plains speckled with riverine
forests, mountain ridges and natural springs.
Activities: Game drives, balloon safaris, game
walks (in conservancies), visits to local Maasai villages for
cultural experiences.
