“If you’ve done any research at all into East African safaris then you’ll have no doubt heard of the Maasai Mara. The Mara is Kenya ‘s premier game viewing spot, but it’s only a small portion of the area that extends into the even more famous Serengeti in Tanzania . Come here at the right time of year and you’ll be privileged to witness one of the world’s most impressive natural spectacles. Visit the reserve at almost any other time of year and you’ll still be graced with a gorgeously wild and beautiful environment filled with a variety of African wildlife. It doesn’t matter how long you come here for, it will never be enough. An enthusiast could spend a lifetime exploring this huge reserve, and most tourists can easily handle a few days and still be left wanting more. But the situation here isn’t all positive. The Maasai tribes who have hunted in this land for generations now live in less-than-clean villages surrounding the limits of the reserve. These peoples are constantly at battle with both the preservation of the reserve and with maintaining their own ways of life.”