Serengeti direction through the Serengeti National Park and north towards the Masai Mara reserve in Kenya. This migration is a natural phenomenon determined by the availability of grazing. The initial phase lasts from approximately January to March, when the calving season begins – a time when there is plenty of rain-ripened grass available for the 260,000 zebra that precede 1.7 million wildebeest and the following hundreds of thousands of other plains game, including around 470,000 gazelles. During February, the wildebeest spend their time on the short grass plains of the southeastern part of the ecosystem, grazing and giving birth to approximately
Londolozi Private Game Reserve Londolozi Private Game Reserve Londolozi Private Game Reserve, is part of the Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, situated on the western border of the Kruger National Park, which together with some other parks make up the Limpopo Transfrontier National Park. Londolozi, a name chosen by the Dave and John Varty, is Zulu for "protecting it", and has an area of about 15.000 Ha. Wildlife in this reserve includes the Big Five. The game reserve has five camps situated next to each other along the banks of the Sand River. The land on which Londoloz is situated was purchased in 1926,