Africa wildlife migration safaris 2010 Kenya group” seat in a car” safari, Masai Mara adventure group safaris Kenya.The spectacular annual wildebeest migration trails from Serengeti Tanzania to Masai Mara Kenya trips.Experience the awesome animal pilgrim The East African endless plains are the theater for the world's greatest wildlife spectacle - over 1.5 million animal ungulate (wildebeest) migrations. From the vast Serengeti plains to the champagne colored hills of Kenya's Masai Mara: Mara –Serengeti Ecosystem over 1.4 million wildebeest and more than 200,000 zebra and gazelle, with the Africa’s great predators in pursuit. The Wildebeest and Zebra movement follow clockwise direction but in a huge scale covering over 1,800 miles every year in search of rain ripened grass.
Africa partners in Safari believes that it is of Paramount Importance for the discerning traveller when planning a trip to witness the East Africa's wildebeest Migration must understand the best lodge or camp to be based at any give time in order to enjoy the ultimate safari experience. There is no real beginning or end to a wildebeest's journey. Its life is an endless pilgrimage, a constant search for food and water. The only beginning is at the moment of birth. An estimated 400,000 wildebeest calves are born during a six week period early each year - usually between late January and mid-March.  The Wildebeest Migration Map-Wildebeest Migration - The Migration on the ground Wildebeest Migration -Wildebeest
Wanderlust
The wanderlust-that great desire to travel is entirety dependant upon on set of the rainy season.
Africa's hot and dry climate, does not only affect the masses of human population but also the huge numbers of animal life and they cannot be sustained in a single place for a long of period time. The desire to survive have such a dramatic effect that as the grazing pastures and water are nearly exhausted they march on
Serengeti and the Masai Mara receive rain fall at diverse times so the animals are driven to search for the lush grasse and water to drink. Wildebeest have harmonized the birthing period to two or three weeks when there is plenty of grass and water to drink. Open plains away from the majority of predators. The rains herald the birth of many animals' young in Africa; such is their dependence on water.
It is amazing how the majority of calves are born during the migration safari and within a few minutes mother and child joins moving herds and therefore avoid predation.
The Migrating Wildebeest on these vast African wildernesses infested with predators the East African wildebeest security relies in numbers. The larger the herds the lesser are the chances of attack as the smaller and weaker animals are the usual targets of attack by a carnivores.
DECEMBER, JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH
The Serengeti National Park / Ngorongoro Conservation Area are perhaps the most extraordinary wildlife sanctuary in the world.In the months of December through March the legendary vast open grasslands of the southern Serengeti and the Conservation Area hosts enormous herds of wildebeest and zebra. More than 35 species of plain game, including wildebeest and zebra, as well as an extensive variety of birdlife inhibit this park reaching up to the sister game reserve the Masai Mara. The thundering hooves of hundreds of thousands of wildebeest and zebra at the height of the annual great migration create a never to be forgotten experience. In the calving season (late January through mid March) the herds concentrate at the Ndutu and Salei plains (Southern Serengeti / Ngorongoro Conservation Area) attracting the attention of predators like lion, cheetah and hyena. APRIL, MAY
April and May the exhausted plains cannot sustain the countless herds of plain game. The migration, sweeping west and north, leaves the short grass plains of the southern Serengeti / Ngorongoro Conservation Area to the long lush grassy plains and woodland western Corridor of the Serengeti , close to the Lake Victoria. Heavy rainfall has set in. The migration moves slowly towards the central Serengeti woodlands onwards to the western corridor. Wild flowers have fully blossomed experience the sight and sounds of African wilderness Vehicles movements heavily restricted due to the heavy downfalls and very muddy conditions.
JUNE
As the end of May approaches the masses wildebeest have exhausted the Western Corridor's best pastures and the herds must move further north. On entering the Lamai Wedge and the Mara Triangle marks breeding time May through June. This is a transitional period between the rains and the dry season.
JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER
The migrating game is in the Ikorongo Game Controlled Area heading northwards to Mara River. This marks the on set of the greatest world spectacle, as the migration crosses the Mara River where the crocodiles makes crossing uncertain for the wildebeest. The migratory animals are looking for the sweet grass across the Kenya border Maasai Mara National Park. The determined animals must cross the river for the die has been cast either they die of starvation, from the Jaws of the crocodiles or the marauding predators of the savannah.
Best place to be based is the western part of the Maasai Mara; here visitors wait across the River Mara to watch as the dramatic Survival for the fittest saga.Between July and October the wildebeest reside in the Mara.
NOVEMBER
Clouds are starting to building up and roaring of thunder can be heard far off a signal of the pending rain. The wildebeest begins to move southwards in the hope of the new rain season. . As November ends the migration is making its way back to the southern Serengeti and early in the year they once again give birth. The circle of life is complete.
The migration settles and grazes in the short grass lands on the southern plains. Game moves into the Ngorongoro Crater. Seronera has permanent water and the migration will move to the south if the rains fall. Zebra are foaling.
*Note - the migration is a natural event and the timing varies month by month; year by year
Please note this is a general picture of the migration cycle and not a précis and definite program. The annual wildebeest migration is a spontaneous natural phenomenon and predicting the actual timing of the migration is impossible. Therefore we cannot be held liable for any misrepresentation of the current on going events in East Africa. Please consult with your Africa partners in safari representative for up to date reports when planning your safari
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