Serengeti National Park

The Kenya Tanzania border is known for its large sized animal migrations.  Depending on the season one can witness the migration of wildebeests from Serengeti to Maasai Mara or the reverse pattern.

From May to July August September the  wildebeests, zebras and gazelles  start migrating crossing the grumeti river to Mara crossing the Mara River.   

When Mara becomes dry from October November they start migrating back to serengati   The calving season is January Frebraury  and this happens only in Serengeti National Reserve.

Well we landed up in Mara first and saw the huge herds of wildebeests already in the Mara region.  There was another group of thousands of wildebeests patiently waiting to cross the Mara River to get into Maasai Mara.  The beats  waited; the crocodiles waited;  and we waited in anticipation to see the river crossing  - but nothing happened.   

So we followed our itinerary and drove down through the Kenya Tanzania border to reach Serengeti National Park staring at 7.00 am to reach here by around 6.00 pm through very bad slushy roads due to heavy downpour.

Here are some photos of the animals in this huge  National Park.

Info about Serengeti National Park 

Serengeti National Park is a World Heritage Site teeming with wildlife: over 2 million ungulates, 4000 lions, 1000 leopard, 550 cheetahs and some 500 bird species inhabit an area close to 15,000 square kilometers in size. 

Serengeti National Park, national park and wildlife refuge on the Serengeti Plain in north-central Tanzania. It is partly adjacent to the Kenya border and is northwest of the adjoining Ngorongoro Conservation Area. It is best known for its huge herds of plains animals (especially gnu [wildebeests], gazelles, and zebras), and it is the only place in Africa where vast land-animal migrations still take place. The park, an international tourist attraction, was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1981 

The park was established in 1951 and covers 5,700 square miles (14,763 square km) of some of the best grassland range in Africa, as well as extensive acacia woodland savanna. With elevations ranging from 3,020 to 6,070 feet (920 to 1,850 metres), the park extends 100 miles (160 km) southeast from points near the shores of Lake Victoria and, in its eastern portion, 100 miles (160 km) south from the Kenya-Tanzania border. It is along the “western corridor” to Lake Victoria that many of the park’s animals migrate. Within the area are nearly 1,300,000 gnu, 60,000 zebras, 150,000 gazelles, and numerous other animals. During the wet season, from November to May, the herds graze in the southeastern plains within the park. In late May or June one major group moves west into the park’s woodland savanna and then north into the grasslands just beyond the Kenya-Tanzania border, an area known as the Mara (Masai Mara National Reserve). Another group migrates directly northward. The herds return to the park’s southeastern plains in November, at the end of the dry season.