![]() Private camps like this are often the centrepiece of the safaris that Saunders tailors for his clients because they offer a quintessential African wilderness experience. Kiboko means hippo in Kiswahili and before long I discover why. "We have to go." Then he smiles at me and says: "The wildebeest will still all be here tomorrow."Ī quarter of an hour later we turn onto a rough track and make our way to the Kiboko campsite. "It's getting dark," he tells me, turning on the ignition of the Landcruiser. Even though we need to get to camp I am reluctant to leave this scene as a pink spherical sun nudges the horizon against the backdrop of a huge sky above a landscape dotted with acacia trees and untold herds of wildebeest. ![]() "This is the Great Migration," says Kaleku, waving his arm at the wildlife spread before us. DAYS ONE TO TWO: THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH But, as it eventuates, it's merely a preview of the spectacle to come. ![]() This is precisely what I have travelled so far to see - the annual 700-kilometre circular journey of around a million wildebeests and a quarter of a million zebras through the Serengeti to the Masai Mara in search of fresh seasonal pasture. Some of them are just metres beyond the four-wheel drive vehicle that has met us while others are mere specks far in the distance across the Mara's vast grassy plains. Once we do manage to safely touch down, beyond the airstrip in every direction and seemingly almost to the horizon, are tens of thousands of wildebeests. Closer to the ground, it's clear the captain is not going to be able to touch down and, instead elects to buzz the grazing masses, sending them galloping out of the plane's path, before the aircraft climbs again, wheels around and finally lands, before taxiing over to the small airstrip shelter.
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