Serengeti National Park
Perhaps the best known of all the Game reserves, the Serengeti is contiguous with Kenya's Masai Mara, yet this huge area in Tanzania is six times the size. Similar in many ways to the Masai Mara except off road driving is not allowed and during the dry months of our summer the great herds have moved into Kenya and the narrow channel of the Seronera becomes the most fertile area.
It was 1913 and great stretches of Africa were still unknown to the west when an American hunter called Stewart Edward White set out from Nairobi. Heading south, he 'walked for miles over burnt out country. Then saw the green trees of the river, walked 2 miles more and found paradise.'
It was 1913 and great stretches of Africa were still unknown to the west when an American hunter called Stewart Edward White set out from Nairobi. Heading south, he 'walked for miles over burnt out country. Then saw the green trees of the river, walked 2 miles more and found paradise.'
It's the migration for which Serengeti is most famous. Over a million wildebeest and about 250,000 zebras flow south from the Mara to the southern plains for the short rains every November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. So strong is the ancient instinct to move that no drought, gorge or crocodile infested river can hold them back.
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The Wildebeest travel through a variety of parks, reserves and protected areas and through a variety of habitat. They are also pursued relentlessly in both reserves by the predators. The Serengeti's reputation is justified; The best accommodation can be found in some of the camps.
