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Located in the remote north western area of the Masai Mara Reserve, Beyond Bateleur Camp is the best loved safari camp in Kenya. The Masai Mara National Reserve is part of a huge conservation area that is considered as one of the richest and most diverse wildlife areas in the world. This is an ideal for first time travelers and wildlife enthusiasts alike. Safaris in Kenya are truly a wondrous wilderness experience. The reserve is home to a vast number of resident wildlife, as well as part of the annual phenomenon of the Great Migration – hundreds of thousands of wildebeest, elephant, hippo, buffalo, giraffe and zebra from the Serengeti, Tanzania, to the Masai Mara. This annual phenomenon takes place in the Masai Mara from approximately June to October.

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Listed as one of the World’s Best Hotels in 2009 and 2011 by the influential Travel + Leisure magazine, the Singita Grumeti Reserves in Tanzania‘s very own Serengeti National Park is one of the World’s most amazing places to visit and stay. The area encompasses 400,000 acres of unrivalled wilderness and forms part of the famous migratory route, which is traversed by hundreds of thousands of animals every year. Situated on a rocky slope, basking in a dense habitat of abundant animal species and birdlife, Singita Grumeti Reserves lend a contemporary style signature to safari.

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Opened in June 2009, Bilila Lodge Kempinski is sets in the centre of the Serengeti National Park (Tanzania) in the vicinity of the great annual migration. The Lodge offers spectacular views of wildlife roaming over miles of bush and a high level of international standard comforts styled to fit in with its safari environment.

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Nduara Loliondo was designed with Mongolian yurts to celebrate nomadic cultures around the world. The outcome is the most amazing camp you will ever see. The camp sited along Loliondo community area which borders the Serengeti National Park, spending 6 months in the south, and then 6 months in the north. The landscape and game viewing is spectacular, with lots of resident game and stunning private campsites which highlight the beauty and amazing diversity of this area.

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The Serengeti Sopa Lodge is sited on the edge of the escarpment overlooking the plains of the south-western Serengeti National Park. A wide range of activities can be done in close proximity to the lodge, thanks to the year-round water and surrounding acacia woodland.

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Animal lovers will be spellbound by Singita Faru Faru Lodge, in the heart of the sun-kissed Serengeti. The lodge is positioned on a rocky slope next to the Grumeti River and a watering hole, a region abundant with magnificent animal life all year-round.

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The word ‘awesome’ does not even begin to describe the experience of staying at Ngorongoro Crater Lodge in northern Tanzania. Set on the rim of vast crater in the Serengeti, is feel as if you are standing at the top of the world. The lodge is next to the largest unbroken volcanic caldera in the world, more than 4,970 miles (8,000 km) of pristine African wilderness, a paradise for the wild animals that roam its rich grassland. Photo by: James Cocker

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In the south-western corner of Kenya, close to the Tanzanian border, is the Masai Mara area. It is dominated by the Masai Mara National Reserve, the most popular game park in Kenyahe Mara. Comprises 200 sq miles of open plains, woodlands and revering forest. Contiguous with the plains of the Serengeti, the Mara is home to a breathtaking array of life.

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The Ngorongoro Crater is a natural amphitheatre created about 2 million years ago when the cone of a volcano collapsed into itself, leaving a 100 square mile caldron-like cavity. This caldera, protected by a circular unbroken 2,000-foot high rim (610-metres), contains everything necessary for Africa’s wildlife to exist and thrive.

Ngorongoro is on Tanzania’s northern safari circuit, and receives a good number of visitors who stay in lodges around the crater. Game viewing vehicles descend the steep crater wall every morning and spend the day on grass plains that are teeming with animals. However, the dark of night belongs to the animals, and all vehicles must leave the crater floor by sunset.

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Africa’s Serengeti Migration is known as the greatest animal show on earth. Wild animals on the move blanket the African landscape as far as the eye can see.

Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. So strong is the ancient instinct to move that no drought, gorge or crocodile infested river can hold them back.

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