Serengeti

As Tanzania’s prime and utmost iconic national park, the Serengeti National Park is one of the best places in Africa for wildlife viewing. It’s one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa, and a bucket list destination for many travelers and safari fanatics.

Located in northern Tanzania, the Serengeti is one of the most complex ecologies on the planet, extending to the Masai Mara in Kenya to form the enormous Mara-Serengeti ecosystem. The climate, plants and animals of this region have just changed over the past one million years, making it also one of the oldest and least concerned ecosystems on earth.

The Serengeti National Park is also rout to the world’s greatest wildlife sight – the Great Wildebeest Migration. Every year, starts around July, over 1.5 million wildebeest, zebra and antelope move in a great mass from the Serengeti to the Masai Mara, in search of greener pastures.

When the rains set in around October or November, the massive herd makes the 1,000km return voyage back to Tanzania. From December to April, more than two million wildebeest remain in the Serengeti.

Home to all of Africa’s Big Five,

Serengeti is a wildlife mistress’s dream, with the chance to see elephants, lions, leopard, buffalo and rhinos, along with giraffes, zebra, cheetah, spotted hyenas and other favorites from The Lion King. It’s a haven for bird watchers, with over 500 species of bird.

You can spot all the classics, but perhaps also some pinker species including the lately reintroduced African wild dog. This unique species had been nonexistent in the Serengeti since 1991, and is critically endangered throughout Africa.

The Serengeti is also a wildlife photographer’s paradise, notorious for its beautiful panorama. You’ll wander through grassland plains in the southeast, cross valleys, rivers and forests in the west, and climb the rocky, hilly northern section of the park.