The Masai Mara National Reserve is open all year, but experienced guides and returning visitors consistently point to one truth: timing changes everything.
The Great Migration (July – October)
This is what most visitors come for. Between July and October, over 1.5 million wildebeest, 200,000 zebra and 18,000 eland cross the Mara River from Tanzania's Serengeti in one of nature's most dramatic spectacles.