Masai Mara National Reserve
User Reviews (442)
Kenya Parks
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Email Luanne | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
We took our balloon ride over the Maasai Mara National Reserve and saw the migration as well as many lions. The Maasai Mara is a huge park with bad roads but the animals were great and we saw a Maasai tribe as well.
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Email Antoni | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
You can almost touch the wildlife with your fingers
Masai Mara is a huge reserve. You may travel hours to cross it from one side to another, so it is very important to rely on experienced drivers that can find where the animals are located. Excellent place for lions and cheetahs as the more emblematic species. You may see also elephants and giraffes in reasonable quantities. We have also seen the black rhino, which is quite unusual.
The resorts inside the park are very good, with excellent food and rooms. People is very friendly in all the country.
ES
Email CATERINA S. | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Only a few animals.
No lions, no leopards.
Scenic place, very dry landscape.
Disappointing.
TH
Email Gib | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
The only reason I gave only 3 stars for bush vibe is because some areas of the park can get really busy, especially if there's any rare sightings (ex. leopard, river crossing, hunting). Some tourists don't know safari customs (and their guides are too polite to tell them) - talk very loud in the safari. We witnesses a hunt by a group of hyenas and some people were just screaming and talking so loud -scared them away.
Otherwise, the wildlife is abundant and very beautiful.
IE
Email Aisling | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
It is a beautiful park with lots of wildlife to see
IL
Email Jennifer | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Maasai Mara absolutely deserves its reputation as the "must see" park in Kenya. The landscape is magnificent and the animals are abundant and just incredible. We caught the very end of the wildebeest migration, and it was like nothing we'd ever seen in our lives. There were easily 50,000 wildebeest scattered across the savannah; from a distance they looked like ants. It's a site I will never forget.
The only thing I do not recommend is visiting the Maasai village. We were uncomfortable from the start and by the end, when we were basically forced to buy souvenirs at exorbitant prices, we really felt taken advantage of. Definitely interesting to learn about the Maasai people, but this just seemed like some kind of scheme.
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Email Rim Hamza | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The wildlife is amazing! Big groups of zebra antilpoes, buffalos, wildebeests... we saw different families of lions, elephants, jirafes. The park offers different sceneries from dry savannah to green plains with different wildlife, making the safri more exciting.
KR
Email Sangkwon Lee | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Never seen rhino at there, it's so sad...
but seen Leopard at there just once...
CH
Email CM Travels | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Some of the best wildlife game viewing in Africa.
CA
Email Adele Blanchette | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
just loved the mara. thousands of wildabeast and zebra. Saw the legendary scarface ond orher lion groups. Cheetah hippos elephants secretary birds puma witnessed lions chassing wild boar, ballon tide
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