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User Reviews of Masai Mara National Reserve (496 Reviews)

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4.8367 / 5 4.8 /5
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Male avatar icon Rick United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: September 2019 Reviewed: Sep 20, 2019

Email Rick  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

The review below is the personal opinion of Rick and not that of SafariBookings.

Use to be fantastic for wildlife, now saturated with noisy disrespectful tourists vehicles

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I first came to the Masai Mara 13 years ago, where it hooked me for life on wildlife and photography. Subsequent visits over the years, this was the forth, has shown a continuing decline in wildlife and a explosive increase of vehicles and the type of tourist that has little or no respect for the animals or landscape. Every spotting was swamped in minutes and upwards of 40 vehicles corralling the animal. Stressed animals, disrupted hunts and animals forced off rest-ups where common, and the norm. I would be surprised if you saw a hunt these days by any of the much rarer cheetah or leopard.

Parts of the reserve now seem devoid of wildlife, Rhino Ridge, Paradise Plains, Talek river, this was strange to us as these areas have always been good for wildlife. This could be seasonal but our guide, very experienced and many years in the Mara as a guide, indicated that it was rare to bother going over to these areas now unless a migration crossing was happening. So it sounds liked
Read more something else is happening to the wildlife. He indicated that a lot of resident wildlife is heading to the surrounding conservancies for a more peaceful life.

The lion population is still very good. Lions being lions spend most of the time sleeping so easier to find, although again if they had cubs they tended to hide much deeper in the bush.

The landscape is still beautiful and with the right timing you can get a vista without the ubiquitous white top safari van marring the view (why can't these trucks be in muted colors that blend?)

One of most my most loved parts of Africa seems to have become a victim of its own success, hopefully more controlled access and a cap on new developments will be implemented soon.
Female avatar icon Angelika Germany flag DE       Visited: August 2019 Reviewed: Sep 16, 2019

Email Angelika  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

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The area is beautiful - but it should not to many people in one van stay - we were 7 people and the driver an this is to much

Female avatar icon Kristi Estonia flag EE       Visited: June 2019 Reviewed: Sep 2, 2019

Email Kristi  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

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Masai Mara is an excellent place to see Kenya's wildlife. We were very lucky to see many animals in their natural habitant.

Female avatar icon Hanna Sweden flag SE       Visited: August 2019 Reviewed: Aug 30, 2019

Email Hanna  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

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Open, wild and authentic. A lot of tourists but because of the big park, we didn´t really bother each other that much.

Female avatar icon Wannisa Kongpim Thailand flag TH       Visited: July 2019 Reviewed: Aug 26, 2019

Email Wannisa Kongpim  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

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This place will not be large and the wildlife will not get much. My hotel has good weather which is high, with a lake view in the morning which is very beautiful.

Female avatar icon Vy Nguyen United States flag US       Visited: July 2019 Reviewed: Aug 25, 2019

Email Vy Nguyen  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

5 / 5 5 /5

Unmatched in sightings of big game animals.

Female avatar icon Karthika Ullas Kuwait flag KW       Visited: July 2019 Reviewed: Aug 14, 2019

Email Karthika Ullas  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

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This being our first Safari we had no clue on what to expect on our game drive. However we were very lucky spotted the big 5. It was amazing and one of an experience... a life time one. Glad we visited Kenya

Male avatar icon Juergen Fichtenau Germany flag DE       Visited: July 2019 Reviewed: Aug 7, 2019

Email Juergen Fichtenau  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

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Just AMAZING

Male avatar icon Omot C Australia flag AU       Visited: July 2019 Reviewed: Aug 6, 2019

Email Omot C  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

5 / 5 5 /5
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It was just as i expected and more.
The scenery looked just like the in The Lion king.

Male avatar icon Sandip Kumar Ghosh India flag IN       Visited: July 2019 Reviewed: Aug 2, 2019

Email Sandip Kumar Ghosh  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

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Expectations was too high