WHAT SAFARI POSSIBILITIES DOES KENYA HAVE TO OFFER?
Masai Mara is considered Kenya’s premier game park. A rolling grassland beautiful to behold, the Mara plays host to the great migration every summer when millions of animals, chief among them wildebeeste, migrate north across Tanzania’s Serengeti plain into Kenya’s Masai Mara. There is still game aplenty after the animals have returned to the Serengeti by early autumn. A visit to Masai Mara is usually combined with a visit to either Samburu Park or Amboseli Park. Samburu Park is somewhat more dry than Masai Mara Park although it too is rich in game. In fact, Samburu boasts some species of animals seldom seen outside Kenya’s North. These include oryx, gerenuk (a long-necked gazelle which feeds while standing up on its hind legs), the reticulated giraffe and Grevy’s zebra with its thin stripes. The primary attraction of Samburu for many, however, is leopard. In Samburu several of the lodges bait leopard in the evening so, with luck, you can watch the nighttime predator come to feast on s
