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Mara, Kenya
Lake Nakuru National Park
Major attractions in Lake Nakuru
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With its rolling grasslands and wide-open savannah, the Masai Mara is the
kind of unfettered, sprawling wilderness you will have discovered in
Hollywood films set in Africa. Kenya's finest reserve, the Masai Mara pulses
with raw energy as an array of animals go about their daily lives.
At certain times of the year the famous Mara throbs to the beat of hundreds
of thousands of hooves as the Great Wildebeest Migration takes place.
The reserve is unfenced and borders the Serengeti National Park. The two
countries share the vast Serengeti plains, with the wildlife free to roam
between Kenya and Tanzania in search of food.
Between July and October millions of wildebeest, zebra and gazelles cross
into the Masai Mara from the Serengeti where they gather to graze and relax
on the Mara's plains, which - at about one third of the size of the enormous
Serengeti National Park, is more manageable from a game viewing point of
view. The Masai Mara's open grasslands teem with wildlife in every
direction.
The Masai Mara Reserve is rich in Africa's biggest attractions - predators
are abundant (lion sightings are incredibly common), and the Big Five are
encountered around every corner.
The Mara is a permanent water source for the area's wild inhabitants and so
even when the very last wildebeest has tardily set off for the southern
Serengeti, massive resident herds remain, offering visitors everything they
could want to see on an African safari. A Masai Mara safari provides a
year-round safari experience.
Lake Nakuru National Park (168 km²), created in 1961 around Lake Nakuru,
near Nakuru Town. It is best known for its thousands, sometimes millions of
flamingos nesting along the shores. The surface of the shallow lake is often
hardly recognizable due to the continually shifting mass of pink. The number
of flamingoes on the lake varies with water and food conditions and the best
vantage point is from Baboon Cliff. Also of interest is an area of 188 km
around the lake fenced off as a sanctuary to protect Rothschild giraffes and
black rhinos.
The park has recently been enlarged partly to provide the sanctuary for
the black rhino. This undertaking has necessitated a fence - to keep out
poachers rather than to restrict the movement of wildlife. The park now has
more than 25 rhinos, one of the largest concentrations in the country, so
the chances of spotting these survivors are good. There are also a number of
Rothschild's giraffe, again translocated for safety from western Kenya
beginning in 1977. Waterbuck are very common and both the Kenyan species are
found here. Among the predators are lion and leopard, the latter being seen
much more frequently in recent times. The park also has large sized pythons
that inhabit the dense woodlands, and can often be seen crossing the roads
or dangling from trees.
-Flamingo (Greater and Lesser) and other water birds including a variety of
terrestrial birds numbering about 450 species in total.
-Mammals: 56 different species including white rhinos.
-View-points: Lion hill, Baboon cliff and Out of Africa
-Hills: Enasoit, Honeymoon, Lion hill ridge etc.
-Waterfalls: Makalia
-Unique vegetation: About 550 different plant species including the unique
and biggest euphorbia forest in Africa, Picturesque landscape and yellow
acacia woodlands.
