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Safari Guide Sandor Carter from Passage To Africa is regularly posting blogs far away from the computerized world. His missives from the outposts of civilization reveal a world of experiences you just can't Google. This week, he's thinking like a wildebeest on the Serengeti.
SANDOR REPORT: GREAT MIGRATION BEGINS
WITH THE ARRIVAL OF SHORT RAINS
Wildebeest Migration At Mara River, Tanzania
The short rains have come: the annual Serengeti migration is underway.
The arrival of the short rains this week signals the southward march of the epic annual migration.
The migration actually never stops: wildebeest, zebra and gazelle travel constantly clockwise over a huge territory in pursuit of fresh grazing. For the animals that prey on them, they're literally a moveable feast.
You'd think a million wildebeest would be pretty easy to spot, but in fact when they are on the move, they have an uncanny knack of disappearing.
It's at times like that when you have to draw on your experience as a guide: as bizarre as it sounds, what you need to do is think like an animal.
There are many fewer visitors to the bush this month. The advantage of coming now is that when you track down the wildebeest you’re on your own: just you and a million animals. It's hard to put an experience like that into words. The sense of connectedness it gives you is extraordinary. You're no longer have to tell yourself to think like an animal — you're reminded you are one.
A PASSION FOR AFRICA: About Sandor Carter
Sandor's first career was seven years with the British Army. A graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst he went on to see active service as a troop leader in the Middle East during the First Gulf Conflict of 1990/91. In 1993 he was employed by Elephant Back Safaris and it was there that he learned the ropes of the safari business, as a camp manager, guide and elephant mahout. This is also where he met Passage To Africa founding partner Michael Lorentz. After seven years in Botswana Sandor moved to East Africa where he both guided and managed two of the most remote camps in Tanzania, Greystoke Mahale and Sand Rivers Selous. In 2005, after twelve years in the field, Sandor was invited to join Ker & Downey Kenya Safaris, established in 1946, the oldest safari company in Africa and where he is also a partner.
As a Pan-African guide Sandor continues to travel the Continent. As a Passage to Africa partner he runs the East Africa
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