The Great Masai Mara Wildebeest Migration
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Kenya happens to posses one of the best unsurpassed geographically good looks anywhere else on the face of the earth.
So the seventh wonder of the world happens to be the Great Wildebeest migration of the Masai Mara.
This happens down at the Mara as well as through Tanzania's Serengeti National Park.
The voyage starts at the foot of Ngoro Ngoro plains in the Serengeti reserve.
The wildebeests chill at this place up until around April- May when the weather runs dry and there's little to devour.
Fascinatingly, the restless beasts give birth to over five hundred thousand calves thus far. Some calves die soon after birth. The herds move to the northern and western parts of Serengeti, some if not most of the newborns do not make it to the Great Migration.
The zebras, which happen to accompany the wildebeests on their excursions, interestingly are the stars of the show really - they set the pace of the movement and direction.
Enter June-July season. The herds start disembarking into the Masai Mara reserve. Fresh soft, scrumptious nutritious green forage of the Mara - you have been missed.
Whatever happens before the animals reach Masai Mara is exactly what is called the Great Migration of Mara. And the party goes on for three months. The Mara River is hitherto over flowing due to high torrential rainfall at the Mau Escarpment - which happens to be the source.
The vast water body that is the Mara River brings with it a tankful of ravenous party-poopers - the crocodiles. For fairness though, who said the party should be reserved for the wildebeests only? Mother Nature knows a little bit of what justice and fairness is.
Like straight out of a spectacular real life adaptation of Jaws, the scene involving the crocodiles and wildebeests cuddling and hugging after missing each other so much is like nothing that can be nonetheless be replicated in a film studio - no props and visual effects can draw the real enthralling and mind-blowing picture of the apparently dauntless wildebeests scampering in the grievous waters across the Mara to the other side where the party is.
Survival of the fastest…. and the fittest.
But mostly fastest.
To learn more on this great natural adventure, take a trip to the Mara and Amboseli, experience the adventure that combines Masai Mara, Nakuru and Samburu offers and other great destinations in Kenya.
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