Serengeti is easily Tanzania’s most famous national park, and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometers of protected area that borders Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Park. The Serengeti is perhaps best known for its migration. Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. The ancient instinct to move is so strong that no drought, gorge, or crocodile-infested river can stop them.
You will be picked up from Seronera Airstrip on arrival. Pick up for a full-day game drive in the heart of the Serengeti National Park, with a picnic lunch, followed by dinner and overnight at the camp.
Serengeti National Park. The park is well known for its healthy stock of other resident wildlife, particularly the “big five,” named for the five most prized trophies taken by hunters: Lion: The Serengeti is believed to hold the largest population of lions in Africa due in part to the abundance of prey species. More than 3,000 lions live in this ecosystem. African Leopard: these reclusive predators are commonly seen in the Seronera region but are present throughout the national park, with the population at around 1,000. African Elephant.
Breakfast at the camp A full day game drive in the Serengeti National Park, Seronera, hot lunch at the camp and/or picnic lunch saved by your guide, game drive until evening, back to the camp for dinner and overnight. Tanzania’s oldest and most popular national park, also a world heritage site and recently proclaimed a 7th world wide wonder, the Serengeti, is famed for its annual migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson’s gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing. Yet even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala, and Grant’s gazelle.
Early hot air balloon safari, followed by a game drive in the Serengeti. Transfer to Seronera Airstrip for your flight back to Arusha. “Magnificent Wildlife”.. The only living things that look as if they really belong to it are the wild animals. “There is an understanding between the animals and Africa that humans have yet to earn.” Laurens van der Post, “Venture to the Interior,” 1963. … As of today, the Serengeti National Park, the National Park of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the National Park of the Maesai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya protect the world’s largest and most diverse collection of terrestrial wildlife. They also protect one of the last great migratory systems still in use.
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