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Serengeti National Park

The Serengeti National Park is one of the most incredible places on the planet. What you might have seen on television or read in a book cannot do justice to the actual experience. It is just out of this world.

This is the largest of Tanzania’s national parks, measuring 14,763 sq. km’s. The park name is derived from a Masai word meaning “endless plains” and houses the largest concentration of wildlife in the world.

The Serengeti is renowned for the huge concentrations of wildebeest and zebra. Approximately 1,500,000 wildebeest and 250,000 zebra migrate annually in a circular pattern between the Serengeti National Park’s Western Corridor and Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Reserve. Contrary to belief, the migration of these animals is a continuous affair with stopover points along the way. These migrationary trends are dependent on the rains.

During late November or December through to May/ early June, lines of Wildebeest (sometimes up to 40km long) can be seen on a journey which can be up to 800 km long. These vast herds of grunting and snorting animals consume a staggering 4000 tones of grass each day. Hot on their heels you will find the ominous and ever present lion, cheetah and hyena. They are particularly interested in the calving season that coincides with the migration off the plains. In a period of only 3 weeks, some 400,000 cows give birth. Unlike most antelopes who seek cover, wildebeest prefer to calve in open terrain, which provides another breathtaking spectacle. These new calves provide easy pickings for larger scavengers and cats. This is the reason why wildebeest calves are able to be up and running within 4 minutes of birth. The best time to witness this is between the end of January to February.

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