The grasslands of the Serengeti plains feed Millions of migrating animals. The dry season is from June to October and the plains are barren and dusty. During the rainy season the grasslands are lush green making perfect food for the animals. "The great migration" is the constant search for green grass and water to drink. Usually around the end of may/ beginning of June, the animals move north across the river towards the rainy area in Kenya. This year, the grasslands were still lush green when we visited and the animals were concentrated in one area around the river that runs through the park. There were thousands of animals! Our guide told us we were witnessing the tail end of the great migration. By the time we finished our combined count including the crater was as follows: We saw over 90 elephants, 35 giraffe, 17 hyena, 6 cheetah, 21 lions, and 6 jackals. The zebra, wildebeests and buffalo were too numerous to count. We were all awe struck by the shear number of beasts and amazed to see two leopards in quick succession! One of the leopards was stalking some Gazelle but a big truck came buy and the gazelles saw the leopard in time to flee. We even saw some lions chomping on a buffalo!
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