Words cannot do justice to the vastness of the Serengeti, where you can see the earth’s curvature. Its fame comes from the dense population of animals and particularly the host of predators that stalk across the 14,800 square kilometres of grassy plains, which are broken only by small river valleys and rock kopjes.

For eight months of the year seemingly endless herds of over one million wildebeest, 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson Gazelle’s swarm into the Serengeti, blanketing the plains. The extraordinary spectacle of the migration reaches its climax in February when wildebeest calving begins and both predators and scavengers reap their rewards. The western corridor, a narrow strip of dense vegetation, provides one of the biggest hurdles to the migration where, in search of fresh grass, they must cross the murky and crocodile infested Grumeti river en-route north to the Maasai Mara in Kenya.