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Masai Mara day 1-3, 15-16

January 15-17 2020

Masai Mara is known around the world for where the wildebeest migration happens, between here and the Serengeti over the Mara River every year. From mid-July to October zebras and wildebeest risk their lives in the great migration together. While we went in January we didn't see the migration but did see a few wildebeest that stayed behind most likely the sick and weak.

The ecosystem of the Greater Masai Marais is made up of around 1510 square kilometers. It became a wildlife sanctuary in 1961, and a portion of this land has been returned to the Maasai community who use it to sustain and improve their way of life. Known for the highest assembly of wild animals in the world Masai Mara has more than 40% of Africa's larger mammals in its endless plains.

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- 4 day tour Masai Mara

- $ 840 a piece

- Rating (Tour and Guide)- 4/5

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Enkorok Mara camp,

Sleeping in a tent in the middle of an African

Safari was a dream come true for us. These luxury tents have their own bathrooms equipped with showers, ours even had two queen-sized beds. The wifi worked slightly inside of the tent but was the best inside of the dining hall. After dusk, if you wanted to leave your tent at all you needed to be escorted by one of the Masai warriors, for protection from animals that can come onto the camp.

The great rift valley

Masi Mara was our first safari we did in Kenya! Leaving from Nairobi took some time but we did stop along the way at the Great Rift Valley. Its part of an intra-continental ridge system that goes through Kenya from the north to the south. The rift stretches from Tanzania all the way up to Ethiopia, and is known as the Gregory Rift. The rift was made up from the interaction of three major tectonic plates that caused volcanoes that erupted and formed the Rift Valley. One of the volcanoes when it erupted blew its top where when it flew off it formed another mountain in the Valley. Some of these volcanoes are even still active. Planes cant even fly over due to the volcanic pressure. The Tugen Hills to the west of Lake Baringo in the Rift have even had fossils found preserved in the lava flows from 14 to 4 million years ago. Many hominids, ancestors of humans, have been found there.