Why the Serengeti?

The name ‘Serengeti’ comes from the Maasai language and appropriately means an ‘extended place’. With an area of 12,950 square kilometers, roughly as big as Northern Ireland, it lies between the shores of Lake Victoria in the west, Lake Eyasi in the south, and the Great Rift Valley to the east. As such, it offers the most complex and least disturbed ecosystem on earth.

Serengeti National Park is undoubtedly the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world, unequaled for its natural beauty and scientific value. With more than two million wildebeest, half a million Thomson’s gazelle, and a quarter of a million zebra, it has the greatest concentration of plains game in Africa. Explore the Serengeti, a vast and pristine ecosystem that plays host to the Great Migration, one of the seven wonders of the natural world. Witness millions of wildebeest, zebra, and other magnificent species as they traverse the plains and brave the shores of the Mara River.

Even when the migration is quiet the Serengeti has the most spectacular game viewing in Africa, with golden-maned lions, herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala, Grant’s gazelle, and specialty bird varieties.