Serengeti National Park quite simply offers the finest game viewing anywhere in Africa. The park covers 14,763 square km of rolling plains, which reach up to the Kenyan border and extends almost to Lake Victoria. It is about 90 miles wide (west to east) and about 120 miles long (north to south). Its far-reaching plains of endless grass, tinged with the twisted shadows of acacia trees, have made it the quintessential image of a wild and untarnished Africa.
The Serengeti ecosystem is one of the oldest on earth and contains the greatest remaining concentration of wildlife in the world, stunningly beautiful landscape and vast pristine areas. The essential features of climate, vegetation and fauna have barely changed in the past million years.
Each year, approximately 1.5 million wildebeests, 200, 000 zebras and 350,000 gazelles perform an annual migration around the plains of the Serengeti ecosystem in search of new pastures. The reason is that the great migration depends entirely upon the rainfall which is rarely the same in terms of precise timing and direction. Local conditions influence grass growth. This explains why wildebeests may move off the plains earlier in some years and remain in the northern woodlands for longer time in others. Essentially, the vast herd spends the wet season on the southeastern plains of the Serengeti, and the dry season in the woodlands of the Masai Mara.
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