The Serengeti National Park

Driving into the Serengeti is the closest you’ll get to that scene in when those colossal gates open to the dodgy dino world before Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum pass through them in a 4WD, not knowing what they’ll encounter. It really is a once-in-a-lifetime experience to be out on the vast savannah, the abundance of wildlife meaning that every minute you don’t know what you’ll see: a parade of elephants, a tower of giraffes, a pride of lions, a million wildebeest on the march. It’s a wildlife photographer’s dream. It’s also home to the semi-nomadic Maasai, their elaborate jewellery,