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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. Amboseli National Park - Wikipedia

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    Amboseli National Park, formerly Maasai Amboseli Game Reserve, is a national park in Loitoktok District in Kajiado County, Kenya. [1] It is 39,206 ha (392.06 km 2) in size at the core of an 8,000 km 2 (3,100 sq mi) ecosystem that spreads across the Kenya- Tanzania border. [2] The local people are mainly Maasai, but people from other parts of ...

  4. Ngorongoro Conservation Area - Wikipedia

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    Maasai pastoralists living in Serengeti National Park were systematically relocated to Ngorongoro, increasing the population of Maasai and livestock living in the Crater. [13] [7] : 48 The Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority was established by the Game Park Laws (miscellaneous amendments) Act, 1976, and owns the majority of Ngorongoro ...

  5. Kenya floods: Tourists and staff stranded in Maasai Mara game ...

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    Tourists and staff are being evacuated from Kenya's popular Maasai Mara game reserve after floods left parts of it submerged. More than 10 lodges and camps have been flooded after the nearby Talek ...

  6. Serengeti National Park - Wikipedia

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    The park lies in northwestern Tanzania, bordered to the north by the Kenyan border, where it is continuous with the Maasai Mara National Reserve. To the southeast of the park is the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, to the southwest lies Maswa Game Reserve, to the west are the Ikorongo and Grumeti Game Reserves , and to the northeast and east lies ...

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

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    Staff and visitors have been left stranded at Kenya’s famous nature reserve, as the death toll in catastrophic flooding rose to at least 188 people.

  8. Africa's week in pictures: 19-25 April 2024 - AOL

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    A lion yawns as a lioness lies on her back after mating in Kenya's world-famous Maasai Mara game park on Friday. [Monicah Mwangi/Reuters] Images subject to copyright. Show comments.

  9. Maasai people - Wikipedia

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    The Maasai ( / ˈmɑːsaɪ, mɑːˈsaɪ /; [3] [4] Swahili: Wamasai) are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, near the African Great Lakes region. [5] The Maasai speak the Maa language (ɔl Maa), [5] a member of the Nilotic language family that is related to the Dinka, Kalenjin and Nuer ...