Serengeti Safari

The Serengeti is the mother of all wildlife parks in Africa. Despite its fame and a reputation to the contrary, the Serengeti remains remarkably remote and undisturbed once you get off the main safari routes. A good quality safari in the Serengeti is, without a doubt an incomparable African wildlife experience.

Serengeti is easily Tanzania’s most famous national park, and it’s also the largest, at just under 14,800 square kilometres of protected wildlife area that borders Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Park in the north.. The Serengeti plains are mainly crystalline rocks overlain by volcanic ash with numerous granitic rock outcrops (kopjes). In the north and along the western corridor are mountain ranges of mainly volcanic origin. Two rivers flowing west usually contain water and there are a number of lakes, marshes, and waterholes. The park is best known for the now unrivalled herd sizes of 'plains game', which migrate between seasonal water supplies and grasslands. These include wildebeest zebra, Thomson's gazelle numerous prides of lion numbering up to 3,000 individuals and spotted hyena.

Go on a Serengeti Safari and experience a soul-stirring feeling of space. Serengeti comes from the Masai word 'Siringit' meaning 'the place where the land runs on forever' and refers to the flat grassy plains which make up about a third of the park. It is these grasslands and savannahs that ensure that the area is jam-packed full of game.

There are animals here at any time of year, but from May to October, the area teems with life, including wildebeest, zebra, impala, warthogs, topi, gazelles and hyena. Lion, leopard, cheetah and caracal can be more easily spotted in the Kopjes, granite inselbergs scattered across the landscape.

The Serengeti is well known for the wildebeest migration, when every year two million animals move clockwise around this 14,763 sq km ecosystem in search of grazing and water. The predators follow the wildebeest and zebra closely and a Serengeti Safari is an ideal opportunity to view lions and other big cats.

Pin pointing and predicting the location of the wildebeest migration is challenging - but with a healthy resident population of animals, safari and game viewing within the Serengeti Game Reserve is great all year round.