Migration late August update

The change in weather pattern has caused confusion in the migration trend in the Mara. The wildebeests stopped crossing the Mara river west onto the Mara triangle and instead moved away from the river completely. Most animals moved back to the marsh in the north and out into the conservancies, Olare-Orok and Mara north. The rest of the herds crossed the Talek river by the end of last week south towards Keekorok, but these ones are now headed back towards the Talek again.

While this is happening in the east, the animals that crossed over the Mara triangle are now crossing back to the east. For the past few days these crossing have been happening at Lookout hill, Paradise crossing point, pump house and near the marsh. We expect this continue over the next week. But we will keep you updated.

 Many of the wildebeests fell prey to the Mara's abundant predators

It has been a season of plenty for the the big cats

 (Paning shot) mother and calf rushes across Olare-Orok river

The herds moves across the grassland towards the river

Wildebeest latest report

The wildebeest have started to return to Masai Mara after going back into northern serenegti briefly a week and a half ago due to the rains that came across teh region. However, the rains didn't last long and it is now hot again. for the last two days, i have been driving round thenorthern part of serengeti between wakokuria an dlobo area. the herds as confirmed yesterday and today have been crossing the sand river inot Masai Mara. many animals have crossed inot the Mara and are now between Keekorok and Roan hill. some animals though could be seen headin to the southern Mara bridge and these are predicted to cross the Mara river int eh next 2 days. teh herds seen between bologonja and sand river are the leading animals and part6 of the first group. the second group is now just after Grumeti. these are expected to join the rest of the herds in the Mara later int eh coming months. i will keep updating.
for those heading to the Mara, tey are expected to start crossing over the coming week near lookout hill.