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It was 1913 and great stretches of Africa
were still unknown to the white man when Stewart
Edward White, an American hunter, set out from Nairobi. Pushing south, he recorded: "We walked for miles over burnt out country... Then I saw the green trees of the river, walked two miles more and found myself in paradise."
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He had found Serengeti. In the years since
White's excursion under "the high noble arc of the
cloudless African sky," Serengeti has come to symbolize paradise to many of us. The Maasai, who had grazed their cattle on the vast grassy plains for millennia had always thought so.
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Two World Heritage Sites and two
Biosphere Reserves have been established within the 30,000 km²
region.
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The Serengeti ecosystem is one of the oldest
on earth. The essential features of climate, vegetation and
fauna have barely changed in the past million years.
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Early man himself made an appearance
in Olduvai Gorge about two million years ago. Some
patterns of life, death, adaptation and migration are as old as the hills themselves.
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Over a million wildebeest and about
200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to
the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in April, May and June.
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So strong is the ancient instinct
to move that no drought, gorge or crocodile infested
river can hold them back. The Wildebeest travel through a variety of parks, reserves and protected areas and through a variety of habitat.
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The Victoria Falls or Mosi-oa-Tunya (the
Smoke that Thunders) is a waterfall situated in southern
Africa on the Zambezi River between the countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe. The falls are some of the largest in the world.
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Victoria Falls is based on a
width of 1.7 kilometers (1 mi) and height of 108
meters (360 ft), forming the largest sheet of falling water in the world.
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Mount Kilimanjaro
Kilimanjaro with its three
volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, is an inactive
stratovolcano in north-eastern Tanzania rising 4,600 m (15,100 ft) from its base (and approximately 5,100 m (16,700 ft) from the plains near Moshi).
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It is additionally the highest peak
in Africa at 5,891.8 metres (19,330 ft), providing a dramatic view
of the surrounding plains.