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  2. Maasai Mara - Wikipedia

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    Maasai Mara, also sometimes spelled Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honour of the Maasai people , [2] the ancestral inhabitants of the area, who migrated to the area from the Nile Basin.

  3. Maasai Mara Conservancies - Wikipedia

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    Maasai Mara Conservancies. To the east and north of the Maasai Mara National Reserve, some of the former Maasai cattle-grazing areas have been converted into wildlife conservancies for tourism. [1] The conservancies include Enonkishu, Lemek, Mara Naboisho, Mara North, Nashulai, Olare Motorogi, Olarro North and Olarro South, Olchorro Oirowua, Ol ...

  4. Ol Donyo Sabuk - Wikipedia

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    Ol Donyo Sabuk (in Maasai), or Kyanzavi in Kamba, is a mountain in Kwanzaa Division, Machako's County, William Northrup McMillan was the first non native to settle here. Etymology [ edit ] The peak has a height 2,145 metres (7,037 ft) [1] and was named by Maasai pastoralists, meaning big mountain .

  5. Adumu - Wikipedia

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    ilmurran, drum, rattles. Origin. Kenya and Tanzania. Adumu, also known as the Maasai jumping dance, is a type of dance that the Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania practice. Young Maasai warriors generally perform the energetic and acrobatic dance at ceremonial occasions including weddings, religious rites, and other significant cultural events.

  6. Visitors stranded at Kenya’s Maasai Mara nature reserve, as ...

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    In Maasai Mara, camp owners were told to leave the affected properties and “move to higher ground further away from River Talek,” governor of Narok county Patrick Ole Ntutu said on Wednesday.

  7. Mara Triangle - Wikipedia

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    The Mara Triangle is the southwestern part of the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, and is managed by the not-for-profit organisation The Mara Conservancy on behalf of Trans-Mara County Council. Divided from the rest of the Maasai Mara National Reserve by the Mara River, the Mara Triangle is less visited and less crowded, with a fairly good ...

  8. Mara Conservancy - Wikipedia

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    The Mara Conservancy manages the Mara Triangle, which is the northwestern part of the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. History of Mara Conservancy. In the year 2000 some of the local leaders became concerned about levels of mismanagement in the Mara Triangle. As a result, the Mara Conservancy, a not-for-profit management company, was ...

  9. Tourists evacuated from Kenya’s Maasai Mara reserve amid ...

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    May 1, 2024 at 6:40 AM. NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tourists were evacuated by air from Kenya's Maasai Mara national reserve Wednesday after more than a dozen hotels, lodges and camps were flooded as ...