People from the Narok county are current under going a transition from having just a bowl of millet porridge for breakfast to having salad with finger-licking ‘chapattis’ for lunch and an evening of ugali special for dinner. This area is the wonderland which is best referred to as Kenya’s food basket because of the large and well established farmlands in the region. The county yields both cereal and cash crops, including wheat, barley, maize and succulent tomatoes consumed in and out of Nairobi.
Not so long ago, the National Geographic’ program, identified Narok as the county, as the ‘Seventh Wonder of the World and its here that one is able to get the best view of the wildebeest migration corridor. The top tourist destination is home to Maasai Mara Game Reserve where you can find a wide range of wildlife like the elephants, lions, cheaters, buffaloes, antelopes, hyenas, rhinos, leopards, wildebeest and all kind of birds among others at water points and other wildlife concentrated areas.
If you wish to visit the place, the Mara reserve has some of the top hotels, tented camps, airstrips and balloon safaris. I t is very important appreciate the fact that the tourism sector has highly contributed to the economic standards of Narok through employment opportunities in the hotel industry, game ranging, revenue collection, beadwork, curio shops and cultural practices in the Manyattas among other activities from which the locals can earn some income to look after their families.
Tourism is one big contributor to the country’s revenue, said to be within the range of Sh2.5 to Sh5 billion every year and the conservative figures available indicate that the County Council of Narok has been collecting around Sh800 million to Sh950 million every year from the year 2003 to date. With this money sufficiently utilized, Narok County can wipe out poverty among its people for good.
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