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Wildebeest Migration

KENYA & TANZANIA GREAT MIGRATION SAFARI HOLIDAYS

The Great Wildebeest migration ”The Great Wildebeest Migration Safaris” is a well-documented spectacle that you have probably heard from one source or another, but it is difficult to comprehend just how breath-taking this display is without witnessing it first-hand. Simply put, the Wildebeest migration is one of the most stunning events that you could ever wish to see.

Million of Wildebeests, Zebras, antelopes, and other migratory wildlife species, migrate every year from South of Serengeti to North Serengeti and finally to Masai Mara Kenya.  On top of this, it’s not just wildebeest that you will be watching, expect to see all the diverse wildlife that Africa has to offer whilst embarking on your Wildebeest Migration safari with Cheetah Safaris. Thousands of wildebeests and Zebras are killed every year while crossing the major infested Mara rivers. 

Before the wildebeest migrate, they have to stay in Ndutu Conservation Area for 3 months as they give birth to almost 8000 calves a day. The wildebeest calving season happens between January and March, but most births are experienced in March.

WHAT IS THE GREAT WILDEBEEST MIGRATION

UNDERSTAND THE WILDEBEEST MIGRATION & CROSSINGS

The great Serengeti & Masai Mara Wildebeest migration is the movement of vast numbers of wildebeests, accompanied by large numbers of zebra, and smaller numbers of Grant’s gazelle, Thomson’s gazelle, eland, and impala. These move in an annual pattern that is fairly predictable. They migrate throughout the year, constantly seeking fresh grazing lands and better quality clean water.

The Great Migration is the largest herd movement of animals on the planet. In fact, with up to 1,000 animals per km², the great columns of wildebeest can be seen from space.

The numbers are astonishing: over 1.2 million wildebeest and 300,000 zebra along with topi and other gazelle move in a constant cycle through the Sout to North of Serengeti National Park – Masai Mara National Reserve ecosystem in search of nutritious grass and water.

Guided by survival instinct, each wildebeest will cover 800 to 1,000km on its individual journey along age-old migration routes. Hungry predators including lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, wild dogs and crocs make sure only the strongest survive in this natural spectacle also known as ‘the greatest show on Earth.’

The circuit takes the animals from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (although not into the Crater itself) in the south of the Serengeti in Tanzania, up through the Serengeti and cross into the Masai Mara in Kenya, and back again. The journey is beset with danger: young calves are hunted by predators, the slow and old are brought down by the pride of lions, crocodiles take their share of the stragglers, and the weak and exhausted drown.