Established in 2009, the 30,000-hectare Mara North Conservancy, which abuts the northwestern edge of the Maasai Mara National Reserve is one of the better known, more popular and, in terms of local people and wildlife gaining, one of the most successful of the Mara area conservancies.
The countryside here is an absolute cliche of what East Africa is supposed to look like: the flat topped acacias, the long golden grass and animals everywhere. Leopard sightings are common, there are lots of very large lions as well as some cheetah and masses of plains game. In fact during the migration the horizon can be utterly covered in the black dots of migrating wildebeest and seeing lions on a kill is very common.
