Having already trekked nearly 1,000 km, and braved the rushing waters and the hungry crocodiles of the Grumeti River, they still have to face more currents and crocodiles in order to cross the Mara River to get to the now fertile plains of the Masai Mara.<\/p>\n Literally hundreds of thousands of animals set off 7 months ago, and a lot have not made it this far.\u00a0 Those who have are rewarded with green grazing grass, and it is here they will remain for a few months, until they set off again in October time back towards the Serengeti, for the whole cycle to start again next year.<\/p>\n We recently have had a customer return from the Mara, and she has written an exceptional blog article about it \u2013 you can read her first hand experience by clicking here<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0Many people feel, as she did, that to witness the river crossing comes with mixed feelings \u2013 you feel compelled to watch, but equally you are distressed by the prospect.<\/p>\n You can also read the full story of the Great Migration here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is happening as I type.\u00a0 What is, I hear you ask?\u00a0 The next landing on the Moon?\u00a0 The Paralympics have started a day early?\u00a0 Summer has finally arrived in the UK? Well, the last answer is close, in that it is about something finally arriving.\u00a0 Not Summer in the UK (I have given up […] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,772,773,9],"tags":[776,1387,774,782,1388,450,612],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-safari","category-kenya","category-tanzania","category-travel-news","tag-great-migration","tag-kenya","tag-masai-mara","tag-serengeti","tag-tanzania","tag-wildebeest","tag-zebra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4248,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/4248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/great-migration.jpg\" "\\"The")
<\/a>After an arduous journey which started in February on the southern most plains of the Serengeti<\/a>, in Tanzania<\/a>, the now extremely tired and exhausted huge herds of wildebeest and zebra have finally appeared.<\/p>\n