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2009: Witness one of the largest wildlife migrations on earth - go to the Serengeti National Park & Maasai Mara Game Reserve
The Serengeti Migration
Northern Tanzania
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Safari Highlights
One of the Natural Wonders of the World
The World's largest Plains Eco System, Unique landscapes,
Lion Prides of the Ngorongoro Crater & Serengeti Plains,
Walking, 4x4 Game Drives, Big Game Safari Experience
When to Go?
(Animals migrate all year round)
January to March ? Witness 8000 wildebeest being born each day
May to August - Vast herds congregate around water sources
September to May ? Excellent predator viewing
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The Serengeti National Park

The Serengeti is unequalled for its beauty and contains more than three million large mammals spread over the vast endless plains.  It is here, at certain times of the year, that we may encounter the breathtaking spectacle of the annual wildebeest migration.  One and a quarter million wildebeest trek in columns of up to forty kilometres long in search of grazing, drawing with them their predators and numerous other species of game.  

From January to March the herds can largely be found in the southern area, proceeding north through the centre and Western Corridor during June and July before entering Kenya's Maasai Mara. They return south in November to repeat this amazing instinctive procession all over again.

Africa's most famous game reserve covers an area of almost 15 000 sq km and is world-renowned for its dense predator population and the annual wildebeest migration. The park is part of the much large Serengeti eco-system, which includes Kenya's Masai Mara Game Reserve, and encompasses more than double this area. The greater park of the park is open grassland, patches of acacia woodland and isolated areas of granite rock outcrops called koppies. Animal migration is linked to the annual rainfall patterns and its effect on their feeding habitats.  Formerly the home of the Maasai tribe who displaced the Datoga pastoralists in the 17th century, the name Serengeti is derived from the Maasai word serengit, meaning ?endless plain'. The national park was created by the Tanzania Government in 1951 and became famous through the work of Professor Bernard Grzimek (in particular his book ?Serengeti Shall Not Die').

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