What to Expect on a Safari in Masai Mara

What to Expect on a Safari in Masai Mara

Basically, a Masai Mara safari hands you a quiet number of chances to look at wildlife and nature cannot go unmentioned. With a lot to accept on your safari in the Mara. Safari Vacations and Travel services limited, we provide relevant and reliable information about the Mara and what to expect on safari to the Mara.

And yes, most of us might have heard about the Masai Mara or the Mara, it is Kenya’s leading safari park and reserve and one of Africa’s leading wildlife destinations for travelers looking for super culture exposure in safari experience and hard to beat wildlife experience. You can expect the following on a safari in the Mara.

The Early wake-up calls

While in the Masai Mara on a safari, you should expect to get a wake-up alarm at around 6 AM or 6:30 AM arrange may take a snack and a cup of coffee, get on your safari vehicle a guide and roll out to the bushes for games especially for cats. You may wonder why this is done in the early hours of the morning but it’s simply because wildlife is too active during these hours.

Morning hours in the Masai Mara are chilly and thus wearing layers would be very fine and advisable as the sun rises, automatically expect the temperature to rise too with the golden sunny looks.  The game drive in the morning hours mostly lasts for about two to three hours with according to one’s sights that’s lets you learn about animal behavior and more about nature and the environment surrounding the area.

Expect the second or the third game drive

You can call it an afternoon drive or a night game drive also accordingly in many ways, this afternoon safari in the Mara guarantees you more advantages of seeing wildlife all way out. As animals are active and likely not to be hiding in deep bushes for a cool temperature and this is a great opportunity to look at more animals. Board, your 4×4 tourist vehicle again with your guide and discover the wilderness to its top to bottom lane. And during this activity, most of the time your guide brings you your preferred cool drinks for refreshing due to weather at a time. Wow, it’s a nice encoder!

The iconic landscape and thrilling experiences

Masai Mara gives you brilliant scenes made up of wide-open grassland accommodating a variety of wild animals with over 1510 _km2 of nature and every other thing in the ecosystem naturally untampered with. And with those landscapes giving a lot of more exciting safari activities like visits to villages, nature walks, and more of game driving.

Wide Range of Accommodation Options

Masai Mara greatly avails you with housing needs with a number of options most especially in accommodation. When it comes to campsites, lodges, and hotels not leaving out the tented camps. Guarantying you options on the location of your choice, it could be between the wildlife area and even riversides, whichever type you opt to use, is offered to you instantly with high-quality services (five-star services).

The World Cup in the Wilderness (The greatest show on earth)

The greatest wildebeest migration is among Mara’s tremendous features. Did you know that this iconic wildlife life event can only be found in only two safari parks in the whole world and one is the Mara which receives the hooved migrants around July to October?

The hundreds of millions of zebras, wildebeests, gazelles cross the plains and rivers of Masai Mara. In the process of migration, other predators like lions lurk over these migrants. You should be more expectant to see these great animal interactions as predators prey action with themselves and travelers and locals await this annual happening and most travelers name it “The world cup in the wilderness” as it is always survival for the fittest, it is an amazing experience one should not miss.

The cultural visits into Masai Mara villages

The Masai Mara is inhabited by the Masai an indigenous group among the forty-five groups recognized. The Masai have lived in this area for years, even though there came the introduction of the western culture in Kenya, the Masai have remained faithful to their African culture and heritage up to date.

On your safari to the Mara, you can plan to visit Masai villages to learn more about them and their culture.

The warm excited welcome

Most of the Masai tribes are still practicing their old way of life such as pastoralists with cattle at the center of their culture plus social life.  They are so welcoming to visitors coming to their villages, with songs and dances, mostly their jumping dance “Adumu” as they locally call it where you can be able to join them as they jump and dance in the dancing circle and spice up the fun.

Here you can be able to taste their local food and they can as well teach you how to prepare it and even teach how to make their clothes and beads for ladies, and wear them which is honestly the best experience in the Masai Mara.

The Bizarre village huts

Their village consists of many huts made from mud and cow dung called “Boma” as it is called in their language .covered with thatched roofs made in circular shape allowing their cows and goats to stay in the middle for protection from the predators in the wild using thick thorny fences around these huts. Surprisingly these huts are most of the time built by the Masai women as men only bring the materials like trees to be used, they can as well teach you how they build them.

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