White ants bring all activities to a stop

For reasons only known to God, at around this time each year, the wildebeest get it into their ugly heads that they must move in their hundreds of thousands from Serengeti in Tanzania to Masai Mara in Kenya.

To the tourist industry, this is an opportunity to revive flagging fortunes and hopefully push up bed occupancy in Masai Mara’s lodges and tented camps to the magical 100 per cent.