Home Base
Sekenani, Narok County, Kenya
Maasai Mara Region begins at Sekenani, the community gateway on the eastern edge of the national reserve. Use this Home Base to prepare for reserve entry, understand current road and vehicle arrangements, and discover the local communities and conservation landscapes that extend beyond a single game drive. The road from Nairobi crosses the Great Rift Valley and Narok before reaching Sekenani, where current local knowledge becomes essential for the next stage of the journey.
Explore from here
See the published routes that arrive at this Home Base and radiate outward toward nearby Places.
Begin with the primary Journey into Maasai Mara Region, then continue toward the Places connected to this Home Base.
Primary Journey · Begin here
Leave the Nairobi Home Base, descend into the Great Rift Valley and continue through Narok before the final approach to Sekenani, the community gateway for the Maasai Mara Region.
Travel to Maasai Mara Region →Primary Journey · Begin here
Continue from the Nakuru regional hub through Narok toward the Maasai Mara Region and the Sekenani gateway area.
Travel to Maasai Mara Region →A short local Journey from the Maasai Mara Region Home Base in Sekenani to the reserve's eastern gate and the beginning of the Mara grasslands.
The destinations and discoveries connected to Journeys from this Home Base.
From the eastern gateway at Sekenani, the Maasai Mara opens into rolling grassland, river corridors and an immense wildlife landscape connected southward to Tanzania's Serengeti ecosystem. The reserve is world famous, but its meaning is also grounded in the Maasai communities and working conservation landscape around it.