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User Reviews of Masai Mara National Reserve (490 Reviews)

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Average User Rating

4.8347 / 5 4.8 /5
4.9095 / 5 4.7569 / 5 4.5743 / 5 4.4201 / 5

Rating Breakdown

5 star 426 / 10 426
4 star 49 / 10 49
3 star 14 / 10 14
2 star 0 / 10 0
1 star 1 / 10 1
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Female avatar icon CATERINA S. Spain flag ES       Visited: October 2018 Reviewed: Oct 26, 2018

Email CATERINA S.  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

The review below is the personal opinion of CATERINA S. and not that of SafariBookings.
1 / 5 1 /5
2 / 5 1 / 5 1 / 5 1 / 5

Only a few animals.
No lions, no leopards.
Scenic place, very dry landscape.
Disappointing.

Female avatar icon Gib Thailand flag TH       Visited: September 2018 Reviewed: Oct 23, 2018

Email Gib  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

5 / 5 5 /5
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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.

Female avatar icon Aisling Ireland flag IE       Visited: October 2018 Reviewed: Oct 22, 2018

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

5 / 5 5 /5
5 / 5 5 / 5 5 / 5 / 5

It is a beautiful park with lots of wildlife to see

Female avatar icon Jennifer Israel flag IL       Visited: September 2018 Reviewed: Oct 21, 2018

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

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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.

Female avatar icon Rim Hamza Spain flag ES       Visited: September 2018 Reviewed: Oct 19, 2018

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

5 / 5 5 /5
5 / 5 5 / 5 5 / 5 3 / 5

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.

Male avatar icon Sangkwon Lee South Korea flag KR       Visited: September 2018 Reviewed: Oct 15, 2018

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

5 / 5 5 /5
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Never seen rhino at there, it's so sad...
but seen Leopard at there just once...

Male avatar icon CM Travels Switzerland flag CH       Visited: September 2018 Reviewed: Oct 11, 2018

Email CM Travels  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

5 / 5 5 /5
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Some of the best wildlife game viewing in Africa.

Female avatar icon Adele Blanchette Canada flag CA       Visited: September 2018 Reviewed: Oct 9, 2018

Email Adele Blanchette  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

5 / 5 5 /5
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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

Female avatar icon Claudia United States flag US       Visited: September 2018 Reviewed: Oct 1, 2018

Email Claudia  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

5 / 5 5 /5
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If you can only go to one park, then this is the one to visit. The animals at Masai Mara were everywhere. This is the park you think of when imagining a safari. We saw several prides of lions in this park. There were many hippos and crocodiles in the Mara River. The wildebeest were still grazing on the Mara and had not returned to Tanzania.

Female avatar icon Ankitha Rajendaran United Arab Emirates flag AE       Visited: August 2018 Reviewed: Sep 30, 2018

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

4 / 5 4 /5
5 / 5 3 / 5 4 / 5 3 / 5

Great experience.