Great Migration - The Most Spectacular Natural Show on Earth

Welcome to the world famous Masai Mara of Kenya, recently designated as one of the new Seven Wonders of the World by the USA ABC television show, “Good Morning America”. Nowhere else in Africa may you find such an abundance of year round wildlife, and nowhere else may you play witness to the spectacle of the Great Migration. Watch as over two million Wildebeest, Zebra, and Thomson’s Gazelle brave the waters of the Mara River - and her gauntlet of crocodiles - with but one unflinching resolve: to reach the lush plains of the Masai Mara at any and all cost.

Our location on the "Great Migration Route" provides our guests access to the best migration sights in and around the Mara River. Take a game drive to the nearby Koyiaki-Kichwa River Crossing Point for an opportunity to see wildebeest and zebra frantically swim past crocodile -- or venture further South to the Mara Serena River Crossing Point to witness more mega drama unfold (see the scrolling flash image above, taken at the Mara Serena Crossing Point). Indeed, the Great Migration is a natural phenomena that should not be missed! Even a game walk in the plain just outside the camp during the migration is guaranteed to amaze you with the spectacle of being surrounded by hundreds of thousands of grazing wildebeest. After November, although many wildebeest and zebra migrate back to the Serengeti only to return again the following July, a respectable number of approximately 600,000 zebra and wildebeest remain year round residents in the Masai Mara. They graze with the resident herds of giraffe, topi, hartebeest, eland and other herbivores - and thereby make our game drives enjoyable all year round.

Koyiaki-Kichwa River Crossing Point, located on Koyiaki Conservation Area. Note the giant crocodile in the picture below... waiting motionless for the Wildebeest to attempt their crossing into Koyiaki (also spelled as "Koiyaki").

Great Migration Wildebeest herds, grazing on the plains of Koyiaki Conservation Area north of the National Reserve border. The Wildebeest pictured below number in the hundreds of thousands -- there are so many stretching to the horizon that, to the undiscerning eye, they can be mistaken for lava rocks. Nowhere else in the world will you find such a dense concentration of magnificent animals!

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