Xinhua News Agency, Nairobi, August 2 (Reporter Bai Lin) Despite the impact of the new crown epidemic, some tourists visited the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya on the 2nd to watch wildebeest migrating from Tanzania with great interest.
The Maasai Mara National Reserve in southwest Kenya is across the river from Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. From July to September each year is the dry season in Tanzania. In order to chase water and grass, millions of animals, mainly wildebeests and zebras, migrated from Serengeti, Tanzania to Masai Mara, Kenya. The animals need to cross the Mara River, where the crocodiles are infested twice, and return to Serengeti in October.
The new crown epidemic has had a huge impact on Kenya's tourism industry. In previous years, the period of great animal migration was the peak tourist season in Kenya, attracting tourists from all over the world to come and watch. Kenya resumed domestic and international passenger flights on July 15 and August 1, respectively. One of the goals is to promote tourism. Affected by the epidemic earlier, most camps in the Maasai Mara National Reserve have been closed.
The tour guide Elisa Jintai told local media that it has been two weeks since wildebeest entered the Maasai Mara National Reserve, and now at least 1.5 million wildebeest are enjoying the green pastures here.
The Malaika campsite is one of the camps that has been opened. It meets all the reopening conditions stipulated by the government, including the setting of hand-washing areas and the spacing between tables of 1.5 meters. The head of the camp, John Temuth, said: "Our camp can accommodate 25 people and was full last Friday and Saturday. All the tourists we received are from Nairobi, and they must check their temperature before moving in."
At present, at least 200 camps and hotels in the reserve are preparing for the arrival of foreign tourists, and about 10 of them are ready for reception.