Great Migration calendar: 12 months, 12 ways

If you are planning to take a safari to East Africa, or if you have already booked and want to know what you can see, and where, this article from Wanderlust should prove invaluable.

Not many people realise that the Great Migration is a year-round spectacle – not just a one-time annual occurrence. Here's how to time your trip for the best wildlife viewing...

There are five main stages to the migration: The calving season in the short-grass plains of the southern Serengeti (late-Jan to mid-March); the trek north across the central and western Serengeti during the long rains in April and May; the crossings of the Grumeti and Mara rivers; the arrival of the herds in the Masai Mara (usually by early August); and, finally, the journey south back into the Serengeti at the onset of November’s short rains..........

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When I have visited the area I have usually gone in February or March and here are three of my images from the Serengeti and Ngorongoro, Tanzania.

Tree Lions

Lions in a tree on the Serengeti, Tanzania.

Newborn Wildebeest

A newborn wildebeest calf with its mother, taken a few minutes after the birth in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania.

Cape Buffalo

African, or Cape, Buffalo guarding the herd on the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania.

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