'Possibly one of the finest and most spectacular game drive that you could ever undertake in Africa is the track that hugs the escarpment along the western boundary of the Mara Triangle. This is my opinion, the perspective of someone who has spent decades wandering about some wild parts of Africa. The track traverses the lower slopes of the Oloololo Escarpment – a lesser arm of Africa’s Rift Valley in Kenya. This is the heart of the Mara Triangle in Kenya and a place I return to every year in an attempt to describe the spectacular scenery that serves as the backdrop to one of Africa’s most spectacular events – the wildebeest migration.
During the migration most visitors to the Mara miss the real story, which is not the wildlife – it is the scenery and the stormy weather that accompanies the migration. When writers or photographers try to describe the migration they usually fail to do justice to these other aspects of the Mara. I find it hard to successfully convey or depict hundreds of thousands of grazing wildebeest on a vast plain. There is too much to take in. My own feelings about the migration is that it is so rich that visual overload abounds. Try and say something meaningful about a billion ants and you have an inkling of the problem.
However I find the backdrop to this drama is more intriguing and much more satisfying visually. The Mara is a weather factory, with fantastic cloud formations building up into spectacular afternoon thunder storms, a Son et Lumière performance that extends to every horizon and up the slopes of the escarpment. Distance and scale renders large animals such as elephants completely insignificant and only useful as a tool to provide scale to the vastness of the scene. That’s the real story of the migration.'

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