The Maasai Mara is a large national reserve in south-western Kenya, which is effectively the northern continuation of the Serengeti National Park game reserve in Tanzania. Namsed after the Maasai tribes people (the traditional inhabitants of the area) and the Mara River which divides it, it is famous for its exceptional population of game and the annual migration of the wildebeest, zebra and Thompson’s gazelle every year from July to October a migration so immense it is called the Great Migration.

With an area of 1510 km² the Maasai Mara is not a national park, but a national reserve and is most probably the famous in reserve in Africa.