As our Land Cruiser sped off down toward the nine-tent Olakira Camp, the sheer scale of the landscape unfolded, the spiny flat-tops of the acacia trees dotting undulating fields of grass and gentle hills rolling out to wide open vistas of scruffy brush.

BBC: The Serengeti in the off-season

The fertile alluvial plains that stretched almost endlessly outside the windows during the first half of the journey give way to an undulating red earth dotted with small rocky hills, scrub bushes and slender trees.

CNN: Center Cut