Exclusive Mobile Camps - Location
DIRECTIONS
BY AIR:
North charters companies flies to and from Arusha to different
airstrips in Serengeti on a daily basis, approximately 50 min flight.
Also contects with flights to and from Zanzibar and other national
parks.
BY ROAD:
Depending on the time of the allocation of the camp it takes approximately 5-10 hours, from Arusha.
Area Information
It was 1913 and great stretches of Africa were still unknown to the
white man when Stewart Edward White, an American hunter, set out from
Nairobi. Pushing south, he recorded: "We walked for miles over burnt
out country... Then I saw the green trees of the river, walked two
miles more and found myself in paradise."
He had found Serengeti. In the years since White's excursion under "the
high noble arc of the cloudless African sky," Serengeti has come to
symbolize paradise to many of us. The Maasai, who had grazed their
cattle on the vast grassy plains for millennia had always thought so.
To them it was Siringitu - "the place where the land moves on forever."
he Serengeti region encompasses the Serengeti National Park itself, the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Maswa Game Reserve, the Loliondo, Grumeti
and Ikorongo Controlled Areas and the Maasai Mara National Reserve in
Kenya. Over 90,000 tourists visit the Park each year.
Two World Heritage Sites and two Biosphere Reserves have been
established within the 30,000 km” region. It's unique ecosystem has
inspired writers from Ernest Hemingway to Peter Mattheissen, filmakers
like Hugo von Lawick and Alan Root as well as numerous photographers
and scientists - many of which have put their works at our disposal to
create this website.
The Serengeti ecosystem is one of the oldest on earth. The essential
features of climate, vegetation and fauna have barely changed in the
past million years. Early man himself made an appearance in Olduvai
Gorge about two million years ago. Some patterns of life, death,
adaptation and migration are as old as the hills themselves.
It is the migration for which Serengeti is perhaps most famous. Over a
million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the
northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October
and November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in
April, May and June. So strong is the ancient instinct to move that no
drought, gorge or crocodile infested river can hold them back.
The Wildebeest travel through a variety of parks, reserves and
protected areas and through a variety of habitat. Join us to explore
the different forms of vegetation and landscapes of the Serengeti
ecosystem and meet some of their most fascinating inhabitants.
Welcome to the Serengeti.