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Kenya devoted to preserving wonderful Mara

There has been a debate from time immemorial about the Seven Wonders of the World. The seven classical wonders of the ancient world were said to be the Great Pyramids of Giza – Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zues in Olympia, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus in Turkey.

The new seven wonders of the modern world are said to be the Chichen Itza of Mexico, Christ the Redeemer of Rio de Janeiro, Great Wall of China, Machu Pichu of Peru, Petra of Jordan, Taj Mahal of India and Coliseum of Rome. But what is not debatable is the 8th wonder of the World, which happens every year on the vast plains of the Mara in Kenya and the Serengeti in Tanzania when thousands of wildebeest cross the Mara River in one of the most spectacular natural phenomenon a human eye can ever behold.

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