The Landscape
Plains without end,
named for their vastness
The Maasai called this land "Siringet" — the place where the land runs on forever. Today the Serengeti spans nearly 15,000 square kilometers of open grassland, riverine forest and rocky outcrops, largely unbroken by roads or settlement.
It is this scale that sustains the Great Migration — over two million wildebeest, zebra and gazelle moving in an unbroken circuit between the Serengeti and the Maasai Mara, chasing the rains and the fresh grass that follows them.
"There is a kind of silence here that only comes from distance —
the plains simply keep going until the sky takes over."
