THE GREAT SERENGETI LAWNMOWER
Let us take you to see the world’s greatest animal migration, as two million wildebeest, Thomson’s gazelle and zebra munch their way across the “Endless plains” of the great Serengeti. Sometimes you’ll see animals stretching from horizon to horizon as they make their way right around the Serengeti, across to the Masai Mara then back again. Your family will have your own fully equipped private four wheel drive vehicle and one of the country’s finest guides, so the vast Serengeti is all yours to explore!
The best place to stay is near the migrating herds and a very comfortable small camp (please insert name and link) moves regularly to shadow them. The camp only takes 10 guests and while you are under canvas, the tent is huge with proper beds furniture and en-suite loo and shower. That way you are always near the action, and can steer well clear of any minibuses which tend to stay around the larger “hotel” lodges. At Christmas the migration is in the Southern Serengeti, near the “short grass plains” which roll on seemingly forever. Here, watchful prides of lion and solitary leopard sit on rocky kopjes preparing to hunt. By Easter the wildebeest are moving northwest towards the forests and crocodile infested rivers of the Grumeti area, and by summer they are running the gauntlet of more hungry crocodiles in the Mara River as they head into the Masai Mara in Kenya.
While the vast herds grab the headlines, you can also see majestic giraffe, herds of elephant, antelope, cheetah, families of playful baboons and many more. We recommend that your Tanzania family safari includes at least three days in the Serengeti, and while you’re there you can call in at the spectacular Olduvai Gorge where some of the world’s oldest signs of human life were discovered. That is at the foot of the 8000 foot high Ngorongoro Crater which you can visit next, seeing 20,000 elephant, rhino, lion and buffalo which thrive in this unique ten mile wide volcanic crater.
Northern Tanzania is a wonderful place for a family safari especially at Christmas, February half term or Easter (when it falls in March). If you want to holiday in August the great migration will be in Kenya’s Masai Mara, and we can arrange a similar wonderful experience for you there, perhaps rounding it off with a week on the beach in Zanzibar or the Kenya coast.
