Serengeti National Park

Why visit Serengeti National Park?

The Serengeti in Tanzania is a vast landscape with 24/7 wildlife action and a range of lodges to suit all tastes.

The Great Wildebeest Migration

The vast plains are best known for hosting the Great Wildebeest Migration – the largest overland migration on earth, which takes place throughout the year in the Serengeti, sharing the months of August to October with the Maasai Mara (Kenya) as the herds repeatedly cross the Mara River to follow the rains and nutritious green grass. For the remainder of the year, the herds are either calving in the southern Serengeti or moving between the north and south of the ecosystem.

Serengeti's vast savannah

The Serengeti National Park is so expansive that the original inhabitants, the Maasai people, named it a place where the land runs forever.  This fertile, volcanic landscape features grass plains, rocky outcrops and leafy woodlands.

The Serengeti ecosystem (national park + conservancies) covers 31,667km² (almost 3,2 million hectares) of protected area, which dwarfs the neighbouring Maasai Mara by a factor of ten.

Predators and other wildlife

The Serengeti is known for its dominant lion prides, cheetahs and leopards. Add to that large hyena clans, roaming wild dogs and servals in the long grass, and you have a feast of action throughout the year. Buffaloes, elephants and black rhinos make up the rest of the Big Five, while vast herds of wildebeest and zebra fill the horizon. Other species to look out for include Masai giraffe, Grant's and Thompson's gazelles, topi, Coke's hartebeest, crocodiles and hippos.

Rewarding bird watching

Over 500 bird species have been recorded in the Serengeti, including grey-rumped spurfowl, Fischer's lovebird, rufous-tailed weaver, maccoa duck, Malagasi pond-heron, Egyptian and Rüppell’s vultures, pallid harrier and Jackson’s widowbird.

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Why the Serengeti is a responsible safari choice

Your Africa Geographic safari to the Serengeti contributes to the conservation of the park to the benefit of local people because:

• We donate a portion of every safari sold to selected conservation efforts at ground level.

• Your safari supports our conservation publishing efforts, which educate the world about the Serengeti and other threatened ecosystems.

• Our chosen lodges support local community initiatives, ensuring that tourism benefits the nearby villages directly. They also adhere to strict environmental practices, such as limited vehicle numbers and sustainable camp operations, which help protect the ecosystem.