Tanzania

Reasons to visit Tanzania

Serengeti Migration

The Serengeti ecosystem is the region trampled by the ceaseless annual migration of the grazers of the African plains, especially wildebeest and zebra. In an area of roughly 25,000 km, the animals move according to the dictates of the seasonal rains, untroubled by land-ownership or boundaries. Their territory centres on the two national parks of the Serengeti in Tanzania and the Masai Mara in Kenya and extends into buffer zones outside the parks where wild animals co-exist alongside subsistence farmers, the local Masai and their livestock. The cycle of life begins in the sweet grass plains in the southern part of the Serengeti, where animals give birth between December and March and the plains teem with game and well-fed predators. But as the dry season approaches, the herds must move north in search of water and better grazing. From July to October the greatest concentrations of animals are in the area watered by the Mara and Talek rivers in the Masai Mara.

African Savanna

Anyone who has ever seen a natural history film will instinctively associate a wildlife safari with classic East African savanna. Enormous blue skies and golden grassland punctuated with flat-topped umbrella acacias. There is nothing quite so stirring as gazing out over an uncultivated range, filled with giraffe, zebra and antelope. Their predators, lion and cheetah, are crouching opportunistically nearby and hippo snort and wallow in the lakes and rivers.