Serengeti over 80 percent of the Serengeti. The southeastern area lies in the rain shadow of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area's highlands and is composed of shortgrass treeless plains with abundant small dicots. Soils are high in nutrients, overlying a shallow calcareous hardpan due to natrocarbonatite eruptions from Ol Doinyo Lengai. A gradient of soil depth northwestward across the plains results in changes in the herbaceous community and taller grass. About west, acacia woodlands appear suddenly and stretch west to Lake Victoria and north to the Loita Plains, north of the Maasai Mara National Reserve. The sixteen acacia species vary over this
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,