Every year, approximately 1.7 million wildebeest, 400,000 Thomson’s gazelle, 300,000 zebras and 12,000 eland will take a survival journey from the Serengeti National Park towards the Masai Mara National Reserve in search of better grass and water resources. Along the way, the massive herds will have to cross Nile-crocodile infested rivers and keep a keen eye out of opportunistic predators such as lions, leopards and cheetahs.
If you’d like to experience this natural phenomenon, here are 16 reasons why you should see the Great Migration in 2016: