Serengeti National Park
Serengeti is Tanzania’s first and most famous park and is renowned world over for its its unsurpassed concentrations of wildlife and its vast endless grasslands. “Serengeti” is a maasai tribe word meaning “endless plains” and refers to an area of 14,763 square km that host a multiplicity of ungulates as well as the annual wildebeest migration. Over a million wildebeest and zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains after the short rains every October and November, and then go west and north after the long rains in April, May and June.
The vegetation in the Serengeti consists of short and long grass plains in the south, the acacia savannah in the centre and the wooded grassland in the west around the Grumeti and Mara rivers.
Serengeti, characterized by the endless plains, acacia trees and punctuated by large stone kopjes presents an archetypal picture of a wild and remote Africa and supports an amazingly large number of wildlife. Animals present include lions, elephants, giraffes, gazelles, monkeys, eland, zebras, wildebeests, leopards, cheetahs.