Great migration Serengeti

More about the Great Wildebeest Migration:

The Greatest Show on Earth is, in fact, an ongoing process and not an event. 1,5 to 2 million wildebeest and zebras form the largest land mammal migration on Earth as they continuously follow the rains and good grazing across the vast plains of Serengeti in Tanzania and the Maasai Mara in Kenya.

Along the way, they cross many rivers, a sometimes chaotic and dramatic process if the river banks are steep and the water deep and fast flowing. Crocodiles trawl the murky waters, and lions, leopards and hyenas line the banks as they too, make the most of the situation.

The great migration follows a clockwise direction, with exact timing varying yearly, depending on the rains. December to February usually sees most of the herds giving birth in the southern Serengeti, when the grass is green and highly nutritious. From March to May, the grasses have dried up, and the herds start moving northwards through the Serengeti, ending up in the Maasai Mara area in mid to late July. The herds move continually back and forth between the northern Serengeti in Tanzania and Maasai Mara in Kenya until late September or mid-October – with the regular river crossings across the often-treacherous Mara River being a focal point for tourists. Then the herds start to move back south through the Serengeti, although stragglers will still be seen in the Maasai Mara into late October.

Our migration camps of choice are Lemala Serengeti mobile tented camps - Mara & Ndutu

READ more about the Serengeti here and more about the Great Wildebeest Migration here.

We offer two Serengeti migration safari seasonal packages, as follows: