Drive through the Serengeti

The next section of our safari was an all day drive through the Serengeti to Sayari camp near the border with Kenya. I love this drive since the country changes as we travel and we get a really good idea about how large and varied an ecosystem the Serengeti is. 

Starting on the short grass plains with distant views of the Ngorongoro Highlands and the ancient Gol mountains and the endless flat plains broken only by the odd archipelago of kopjes poking up through the grass. 

Through the central areas around Seronera with the long grass plains gradually making way to open woodland and riverine forest along the drainage lines.  

Past the larger kopjes at Mbuzi Mawe (Rock goats) named for the Klipspringer antelope who live on these monoliths and Lobo with the rolling hills and valleys. 

And finally to the Northern Serengeti where the border with Kenya divides the ecosystem in a purely arbitrary political line from the Masai Mara. 

Here the whole of the Serengeti seems to have contributed to the area with open plains on long, rolling hills and outcroppings of kopjes, the Mara river with her crocs and Hippos and the Siria escarpment lifting above it all to the west. 

It was a long day but Fraida, Bob, myself and our driver Fazo had some breathtaking scenery and lots of game to keep us enthralled so the time went by all too quickly.