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Drawn by wildebeest, tourists pour into Kenya despite possible election violence

Photographers take photos of Migrating wildebeests running across the Mara River at Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, on Oct. 20, 2012.

Tourists to Kenya are shrugging off fears of potential violence during elections in August, pouring into the East African country in droves for a chance of seeing the annual wildebeest migration in the Maasai Mara.

Tour operators and hoteliers are reporting near full capacity, in large part because of safari-lovers hoping to see the hundreds of thousands of wildebeest that run the gauntlet of hungry crocodiles as they cross the Mara river in search of greener pastures on the Kenya-Tanzania border.

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