CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
The stops in between: Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area and back through Serengeti National Park. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Serengeti comes from the Maasai word siringet, meaning the place where the land runs on forever, and that is exactly the impression of the plains in northern Tanzania. Grassland stretches to the horizon, broken by granite outcrops called kopjes, flat-topped acacias and the green lines of rivers, and above it all the sky changes by the hour. The park covers nearly fifteen thousand square kilometres and joins Kenya's Maasai Mara to the north, forming the setting for the great migration, in which well over a million wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebra and gazelle follow the rains in an enormous circuit, with lions, cheetahs, hyenas and crocodiles waiting along the route.
Read the complete Serengeti National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Serengeti National Park is where the day begins. Next is Serengeti National Park.
Siringet is the Maasai word for the endless plain, and the name was put on the maps by European visitors who heard it and wrote it down. The Serengeti is nearly fifteen thousand square kilometres of grassland, acacia woodland and granite outcrops called kopjes, in northern Tanzania, and each year more than a million wildebeest, accompanied by hundreds of thousands of zebra and gazelle, move through it in a great circular migration, following the rains and the new grass. In February they calve on the short-grass plains of the south, in May and June they head north-west toward the Grumeti river, and by July and August the herds reach the northern Mara river, where crocodiles wait at the crossings. The park, together with the neighbouring Ngorongoro Conservation Area, is listed as a World Heritage site.
Read the complete Serengeti National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Serengeti National Park comes up about 87 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
Ngorongoro is a volcano that fell in on itself. Millions of years ago, a mountain as high as Kilimanjaro erupted and collapsed, leaving a caldera about twenty kilometres across, whose floor is some six hundred metres below the rim, and it is one of the largest unbroken calderas in the world. The crater floor holds grassland, a soda lake, springs and a patch of fever-tree forest, and it supports around twenty-five thousand large animals, including wildebeest, zebra, lions, hyenas, elephants, buffalo and some of the last black rhino in East Africa.
Read the complete Ngorongoro Conservation Area write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 195 km into the recorded legs you reach Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Next is back through Serengeti National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Serengeti National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Serengeti National Park, late in the day.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Serengeti National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Serengeti National Park. That is the ride.
Serengeti National Park → Serengeti National Park is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Serengeti National Park → Ngorongoro Conservation Area is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area → back through Serengeti National Park is 130 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Serengeti National Park → Serengeti National Park is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.