The Serengeti Migration
Rarely predictable, often surpising, always exciting. The serengeti wildebeest migration is our life blood
More than 20 years of studying the migration and shadowing its movements through the Serengeti have taught us that it rarely conforms to those nice little maps you so often see. Our objective is always to have Serengeti Safari Camp in the best available position for the migration, it may not always be where it's "supposed" to be.
The Calving
The Southern Plains of the Serengeti are where it all begins. Here is where the wildebeest would like to call home and it's where, each year in late February or March, life begins for half a million wildebeest.
read more April and May
The Rut
As the southern plains dry out and the rut begins, so the herds begin to move. April and May find them flooding through Moru Kopjes in the South Central Serengeti as they begin the journey north.
read more June and July
Crossing the Grumeti River
As the migration gathers momentum, the herds enter the Serengeti Western Corridor. It's here that the wildebeest and their newborn calves meet their first serious barrier in the form of the Grumeti River and its vast crocodiles.
read more August to November
Crossing the Mara River
Between August and November, the migration reaches its northern range; the grasslands on either bank of the crocodile infested Mara River which the herds must cross not once, but twice as they complete their migration
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