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For today's video, we're at the Serengeti National Park, in Tanzania, east Africa.
Serengeti National Park is an enormous expanse of open savannah, located in the north of
Tanzania, and it sprawls out for an incredible 1.5 million hectares.
The name comes from the local Maasai people, who called it "Siringet", or "the place where
the land runs on forever".
It's an iconically African location, with wide open plains, sparse trees, rolling hills,
and of course animals everywhere.
The Serengeti is most famous for the enormous wildebeest migration, where an estimated 1.5
million animals move across the plains in gigantic herds multiple times a year, following
the rains and the food sources.
We were lucky enough to see some of the migration, which is a genuinely impressive sight.
There's also around 250,000 zebras roaming the Serengeti, and indeed you usually don't
have to look very hard to find them.
They tend to be everywhere.
Elephants are numerous on the Serengeti, including of course the ultra-cute baby elephants sticking
with their mothers.
We saw multiple cheetahs, including one perched on a small ant-hill - carefully surveying
the grasslands from the highest point for miles around.
These iconic animals are probably my favourites.
The Serengeti is also home to several thousand lions, which roam around following the gazelles
and other prey animals.
They're completely untroubled by the presence of humans, and didn't pay us the slightest
bit of attention as we drove past, and they wandered down the road.
Elsewhere, you'll find hippos and crocodiles, though unfortunately we didn't manage to see
any rhinos.
They've suffered heavily from illegal poaching, and tragically only a few are left in the park.
There's hundreds of giraffes in the Serengeti.
Our car had a puncture late one afternoon, and while it was being repaired a curious
young giraffe came and poked her head over the trees to investigate.
She was very interested in watching, and it's still one of my favourite memories from the whole trip.
Of course there are boundless other species in the Serengeti as well.
Hyenas,
Warthogs,
Gazelles
Buffalo
and Ostriches
We even managed to spot two elusive leopards, which you can kinda see in these photos.
I think I'll leave the proper wildlife photography to these guys.
Overall, the Serengeti National Park is a magical, iconic place.
We spent two days there, camping in permanent tents and doing game drives all day, and we
still have heaps more to see.
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