The Serengeti is teeming with wildlife, amazing landscapes and home to the ‘Greatest Show on Earth’: the Great Migration. It is the true pinnacle of safari, Tanzania’s oldest national park with some of the best opportunities to spot game anywhere in the world and nearby to the Cradle of Mankind, this expansive ecosystem is the place where the land runs on forever.
The Serengeti National Park offers changing environments and habitats covering 14,750 kilometres squared. The park is typically split into three distinct areas; the Northern Serengeti with rolling hills and open woodland, the Serengeti plains with the typical imagery of open grasslands and the Western corridor the savannah region with black clay soil and the Grumeti River winding through. Each area hosts different animal species, from the nile crocodiles and hippopotamuses of the Western Corridor to the giraffes and elephants of the Northern Serengeti.
The Great Migration is the annual circular migration from which the wildebeest start in the Ngorongoro crater and southern aspect of the Serengeti looping clockwise across the Serengeti to the continuous Maasai Mara in Kenya. The driving force for the mass migration is the availability of grazing in tandem with the calving season. Starting in January the crescendo of the spectacle is around July when the wildebeest cross the Grumeti and Mara rivers where crocodiles lie in wait ready to take their supporting roles within the show.
