Maasai Mara Highlights

The Mara Triangle

The Mara Triangle has been most efficiently managed by the Mara Conservancy for the past 15 years – evidenced in the guides’ discipline, successful anti-poaching efforts and impressive road infrastructure. For much of the year, the Mara Triangle has the lowest density of visitors  in the Greater Maasai Mara, with just two lodges within its perimeters and a few on the northern border.

Maasai Mara Climate

Just a few degrees south of the equator, there are only minor fluctuations in the length of day and temperature over the year. Clear bright mornings are the norm throughout most of the year, and in season, the rain tends to arrive in the afternoon and evening. Far from being a depressing event, the rain in the Mara is a life force.

Quick Facts

Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem

South of the Kenyan border, Tanzania’s Serengeti consists of various types of woodland and grassland. It is on the ‘short-grass plains’ — an area of shallow, volcanic soils west of Ngorongoro — that the wildebeest’s story begins. Here, they give birth to young calves every January and February. These plains flush green with highly nutritious grass after the rain, but are grazed flat and dry-out completely by March when the herds trek north. Their destination is the Maasai Mara, which is still blanketed with nutritious grass when the rest of the ecosystem has dried out.

Wildlife & Game Drives

Regardless of when you visit, the Mara is a non-stop extravaganza of astonishing and abundant wildlife, and world–renowned Big Five destination for its exceptional populations of lion, leopard, cheetah, herds-a-thousand-strong of buffalo, the rare black rhino and a thriving elephant population. It boasts a checklist of more than 470 birds as well.