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The Mara Triangle is easy to access by plane with Angama Mara Airfield, Kichwa Tembo, Mara North, Musiara and Serena airstrips, and with daily scheduled flights connecting it with other parks and reserves in Kenya, the Kenyan coast (Mombasa, Diani, Malindi) and Nairobi (Jomo Kenyatta and Wilson
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There are two permanent lodges inside the Mara Triangle - Mara Serena and Little Governors. There are a few camps on the park's periphery which offer game drives inside the park:
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The landscapes of the Mara Triangle include riverine forest, red oat grasslands, volcanic hills and the 400-metre high Oloololo Escarpment.
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and a number of seasonal mobile camps are set up to coincide with the arrival of the megaherds of the Great Migration each year.
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National Reserve, with an area of 510 km. It has two natural borders and one political; to the southwest is the
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are world-renowned for being particularly dramatic, featuring in many wildlife documentaries such as
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The Mara Triangle is one of the areas where herds of the Great Migration enter and exit the
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It is also possible to take your own camping gear and stay at one of the
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The Mara Triangle – Official website for The Mara Conservancy
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airports). The Mara Triangle is also reachable by road.
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Index

IUCN category
national park
Map showing the location of Mara Triangle
Narok County
Kenya
1°24′24″S 34°54′24″E / 1.40655°S 34.90655°E / -1.40655; 34.90655
Mara Conservancy
Maasai Mara
Kenya
The Mara Conservancy
Maasai Mara
Mara River
Big Five
lion
leopard
elephant
buffalo
rhino
cheetah
hyena
jackal
wildebeest
zebra
giraffe
waterbuck
Maasai Mara National Reserve
Serengeti National Park
Tanzania
Mara River
Wild Africa

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