Serengeti National Park

Serengeti

Serengeti National Park, the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world, unequally for its natural beauty and value. Therefore, this is the greatest concentration of plains game in Africa.

The Serengeti National Park in Tanzania was established in 1952. A home to the greatest wildlife spectacle on earth the great migration of wildebeest and zebra. Therefore, the resident population of lions, cheetah, elephants, giraffes, and birds, is also impressive. There’s a wide variety of accommodation available, from luxury lodges to mobile camps. The park covers 5,700 sq miles. Larger than Connecticut, with at most a couple of hundred vehicles driving around.

The Park divides into 3 sections. The popular southern/central part (Seronera Valley). Therefore, Maasai calls the “Serengeti”, the land of endless plains. Also, classic savannah, dots with acacias and fills with wildlife. The western corridor marks by the Grumeti River, forests as well as dense bushes. The north, Lobo area, which meets up with Kenya’s Masai Mara Reserve, is the least visited section.

Uniqueness

• The greater Serengeti ecosystem is not just located in one country in Africa, it comprises the Serengeti National Park and smaller reserves in Tanzania, while in Kenya, it spans across the Maasai Mara Game Reserve.
• The Serengeti is Tanzania’s oldest park and the flagship of the country’s tourism industry.
• Made up of grasslands with scattered trees, rock outcroppings, wetlands, and rivers, the Serengeti and surrounding area host a diversity of wildlife found nowhere else on earth.
• The wildebeest, which number over 1.8 million individuals, constitute the largest population of big mammals in the Serengeti.