Wildlife Migration / Wildebeest Migration in Tanzania / Serengeti National Park

Wildlife Migration (Wildebeest Migration) in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park where you will have a great Tanzania adventure safari while on your Tanzania Wildlife Safari.

The Serengeti National Park covers 14,763 sq. km of endless rolling plains where you adventure Wildlife Migration in Tanzania, which reaches up to the Kenyan border and extends almost to Lake Victoria.

The ‘untold plains’ named Serengeti by the wandering Masai, that support 3 million mammals, upwards of 2 million of whom annually migrate in concentrated herds north across the Mara River.

The park is teaming with stunning wildlife – it is thought that over 3 million large mammals roam the plains. This great spectacle of nature has a cast that includes Thompson’s Gazelles, Wildebeest, and Zebras. It begins in June with the return leg in October/November.

The Serengeti national park center plains are of acacia savannah where Wildlife migration in Tanzania takes place, with dry grasslands to the south, an eastern corridor of wooded highland that fronts Lake Victoria and to the north, the wooded grasslands along the Grumeti and Mara Rivers. Many lions and Cheetahs inhabit this enormous sanctuary.

Witness the annual migration of millions of zebra and wildebeest in search of water and forage as the season changes in early June.

Activities to do will encountering Wildlife migration in Tanzania and Special Interests are; photography, Bird watching tours, walking safaris, and hot air balloon safaris.

Wildlife migration in Tanzania includes large herds of antelopes like the Patterson’s eland, Klipspringer, Zebra, gazelles, waterbuck, bushbuck and reedbuck, Dikdik, impala, topi, cotton’s oribi, kongoni, Grey bush duiker, roan antelope buffalo, and wildebeest Plus lions, cheetahs, leopards, and hyenas, bat-eared foxes, hunting dogs and jackals.

The mammals include the spring hare, porcupine, warthog, hyraxes, baboon, vervet monkey, colobus monkey, patas monkey, and mongooses, giraffe, rhino, elephant, hippopotamus.

Nearly 500 species of bird, including vultures, storks, flamingoes, martial and fish eagles, ostrich have been recorded. Reptiles: crocodiles, a number of species of snakes and lizards.

For accommodation, there are a number of lodges and camps to stay at in the Serengeti.

Lodges to stay on your Tanzania Wildlife Tour: Lobo Wildlife Lodge, Seronera Wildlife Lodge, Serengeti Serena Lodge, Ndutu Safari Lodge (near Olduvai Gorge), and Serengeti Sopa Lodge.

Camps to stay on your Tanzania Wildlife Tour: Kijesereshi Tented lodge just outside the camp south of Nsabaaka Gate (northwest of the Park) and Migration camp around the Lobo area. There are public campsites (very basic some without even water), 6 special campsites, and 12 wilderness campsites.

Wildlife Migration

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