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The Masai Mara
The Masai Mara
is Kenya's most celebrated game park, it offers the possibility of
seeing "the big five" and many other species of game. Each year the
Mara plays host to the world’s greatest natural spectacle, the Great
Wildebeest Migration from the Serengeti. From July to October, the
promise of rain and fresh life giving grass in the north brings more
than 1.3 million Wildebeest together into a single massive herd.
They pour across the border into the Mara, making a spectacular
entrance in a surging column of life that stretches from horizon to
horizon. At the Mara River they mass together on the banks before
finally plunging forward through the raging waters, creating a
frenzy as they fight against swift currents and waiting crocodiles.
The wildebeest
bring new life to the Mara, not just through their cycle of
regeneration of the grasslands, but for the predators who follow the
herds.
Amboseli National Park
One of the
iconic pictures of Africa - elephants walking against a backdrop
of the snow-capped Kilimanjaro - originates in Amboseli National
Park. This is the image, more than any other, that shaped my
childhood dreams of Africa. The snows of Kilimanjaro may be
thawing due to global warming but the image of animals framed by
Africa's highest point continues to enthrall visitors. At times
the mountain is covered by mist but then the imagination adds an
extra dimension to the experience.
Relatively
small at around 390 km2 Amboseli is one of Kenya's most visited
parks, although parts of the park have suffered recently due to
drought, over-grazing and the excessive demand of tourism,
resulting in areas becoming barren dust bowls. I found Amboseli
to be the busiest park in Kenya, tourist wise, with vehicles
literally racing from sighting to sighting but nevertheless the
landscape and the wildlife made up for what the park lacked in
human etiquette.
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