Karen Blixen once famously said there was more light and air in Africa than anywhere else, and she was probably referring to the Serengeti plains – where the sky is apparently taller, and a lighter blue. Her lover, Denys Finch Hatton, founded the National Park there – a place of unequalled natural beauty and perhaps the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world.
At the heart of Tanzania’s wilderness and safari-scape lies the Serengeti, with the greatest concentration of plains game in Africa: over two million wildebeest, half a million Thomson’s gazelle, and a quarter million zebra. Appropriately enough ‘Serengeti’ means ‘Endless Plains’ in Maa (the Maasai language), through which, during the annual Serengeti Migration, wildebeest and zebra traipse in their millions. The migration attracts wildlife and nature enthusiasts from around the world, there to see unfold the largest, most intricate, and least disturbed ecosystem in world.