TRAVEL
BUCKET LIST NO.32
Witness the Wildebeest migration
It’s one of the planet’s most incredible wildlife spectacles: 1.4 million horned heads pioneering a 1,800mile-long trip across east African plains (their approach sounds like rumbling thunder) in an annual search for food and water. Hundreds of herbivores (gazelle, zebra, eland…) are hot on their trail, though they’re not the only ones: lions, leopards and cheetahs stalk and run down the migrating beests. Make for the African savannah this month (or anytime
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before September) and you can see this life and death ritual played out before your very eyes – from the safety of a guarded jeep, of course. Choose the location of your luxury lodging wisely: the brown beasts gallop from the vast Serengeti plains to the caramel-coloured hills of the Masai Mara. There the Masai River presents a final swollen hurdle for the herd, the weakest of which are swallowed up in its crocodile-infested waters. Gruesome yet stirring.