SerengetiNational Park

The Serengeti is home to the largest terrestrial mammal migration in the world. Over 1.5 million wildebeest, 300,000 zebra, and hundreds of thousands of gazelle sweep across 30,000 square kilometres of grassland in an endless cycle of birth, life, and death.

Named from the Maasai word 'siringet' meaning endless plains, the Serengeti is Tanzania's oldest and most popular national park, gazetted in 1951. Its ecosystem — spanning 30,000 km² from the Ngorongoro highlands to Kenya's Masai Mara — supports one of the highest concentrations of large predators in Africa: over 3,000 lions, 1,000 leopards, and the continent's largest population of cheetah.

The park divides naturally into four distinct zones. The Southern Plains (Ndutu area) host the calving season from January to March, when over 8,000 wildebeest are born daily. The Central Serengeti around Seronera offers year-round predator action in dense acacia woodland. The Western Corridor follows the Grumeti River where colossal Nile crocodiles ambush crossing herds in June and July. The Northern Serengeti, bordering the Mara River, stages the most dramatic river crossings from August to October.

Beyond the migration, the Serengeti supports over 500 bird species, ancient granite kopjes sheltering lions and klipspringers, and one of Africa's last viable populations of African wild dog. Balloon safaris at dawn offer a perspective found nowhere else on Earth — the sunrise gilding an ocean of grass as far as the eye can see.