About this guide

Great Migration Tour is an independent editorial guide to migration experience planning in the Serengeti–Mara ecosystem. It brings ecological explanation, precise geographic labels and practical comparison questions into the same reading experience.

Movement belongs to a wider place

A dense herd is one view of the ecosystem. Open land, water, other wildlife and contemporary local work add different kinds of context. The guide keeps these subjects distinct so one dramatic photograph does not stand in for the whole region.

Read the source behind the statement

Factual context comes from published primary material, including park information, scientific research and named conservation organisations. Research by Ricardo M. Holdo, Robert D. Holt and John M. Fryxell is identified as their 2009 publication. Programme accounts remain the accounts of the organisations that publish them.

Photographs retain their creators, locations, dates and individual licenses. The arrangement of images on a page explains contrasts of scale and density; it is not a record of one herd’s route or a report of current conditions.

An independent comparison guide

Experience listings are supplied by separate providers. Their named routes, guiding, availability, currencies and service terms should be read on the current offer. The guide does not operate a fleet, issue permits, provide guiding or book an encounter with wildlife.

For a correction or question about this publication, use Contact. For an existing booking, current access or operational arrangements, speak with the organisation responsible. Useful questions begin with the exact page, place or offer you want to understand.