Tanzania-Serengeti National Park (part 1)

...viaggio fotografico nel meraviglioso Parco Nazionale del Serengeti in Tanzania...

Fotografie di Samuele Arrigoni

Discover Serengeti

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."
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. To them it was Siringitu - "the place where the land moves on forever."
  The Serengeti region encompasses the Serengeti National Park itself, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Maswa Game Reserve, the Loliondo, Grumeti and Ikorongo Controlled Areas and the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. Over 90,000 tourists visit the Park each year.
Two World Heritage Sites and two Biosphere Reserves have been established within the 30,000 km² region. It's unique ecosystem has inspired writers from Ernest Hemingway to Peter Mattheissen, filmakers like Hugo von Lawick and Alan Root as well as numerous photographers and scientists - many of which have put their works at our disposal to create this website.
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. 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.
It is the migration for which Serengeti is perhaps most famous. 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. 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. Join us to explore the different forms of vegetation and landscapes of the Serengeti ecosystem and meet some of their most fascinating inhabitants.
Welcome to the Serengeti.
Lota Melamari
Director General
Tanazania National Parks

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• Serengeti
• National
• Park
• Tanzania
• Africa
• Maasai
• lions
• lionesses
• hippos
• elephants
• hyenas
• giraffes
• nature
• leopard
• wildlife
• wilderness

[attirma]

Fantastico! E' come tuffarsi in un'altra dimensione...

Grazie e ciao, annA.

[lupocheululaallaluna]

@attirma

Grazie annA...

è la sensazione che ho avuto anche io...sembrano posti così "lontani"...e mi auguro che resistano a lungo...alla presenza dell'uomo "civilizzato".

;-)

lupocheululaallaluna

[beatricedelmare]

L' Africa, è il solco profondo delle nostre radici, non bisognerebbe dimenticarlo mai!

[lupocheululaallaluna]

@beatricedelmare

..."la culla della vita"...

;-)

bye!

lupocheululaallaluna

[supervicky77]

Finalmenteeeeeeee!!! Condiviso su fb ;)).....non hai idea di quanto stia invidiando tuo zio!!!!! La musica è bellissima, che traccia è?

[lupocheululaallaluna]

@supervicky77

Grazie "lady"!

...mio zio si è regalato un bellissimo viaggio...un'esperienza indimenticabile...ancor oggi quando ne parla in lui si avvertono le emozioni che ha vissuto in quei giorni...anche io lo invidio un casino!

La soundtrack è indicata alla fine del video...l'autore è Richard Hartley ed i pezzi sono "Sheena's Theme" e "May It" e fanno parte della colonna sonora del film "Sheena" con Tanya Roberts.

;-)

bye!

lupocheululaallaluna

[attirma]

Ops, ho scordato... complimenti allo zio per le belle foto!

[simona001000]

@supervicky77 è Super!

[simona001000]

@lupocheululaallaluna anche a me...tantissimo.....grazie del sogno!

[supervicky77]

@simona001000

sì è davvero bello!