Serengeti National Park Tanzania

Serengeti National Park Summary

Serengeti National Park is the oldest and most famous national park in Tanzania, and possibly the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world. Its vast plains are home to predator and prey, vying for grasslands and the last watering holes as the dry season progresses.

Between December and May, millions of mammals migrate across the plains, and the interaction between species as they interact is awesomely entertaining.

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Size of Serengeti National Park Tanzania:
14,763 sq km (5,700 sq mi).

Location of Serengeti National Park Tanzania:
335km (208 mi) from Arusha, stretching north to Kenya and bordering Lake Victoria to the west.

Getting to Serengeti National Park Tanzania:
A six hour drive, or one hour flight, from Arusha. There are also flights from Lake Manyara and Mwanza.

Things to do in Serengeti National Park Tanzania:
Hot air balloon safaris, walking safaris, picnicking, game drives, See the Maasai rock paintings and musical rocks. Visit neighbouring Ngorongoro Crater, Olduvai Gorge, Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano and Lake Natron’s flamingos.

Best time to visit Serengeti National Park Tanzania:
To follow the wildebeest migration, December-July. To see predators, June-October.
Serengeti National Park Tanzania Description
Serengeti National Park is best known for the wildebeest migration, during which over a million wildebeest make the annual trip across the plains, trekking up to 1,000km across harsh terrains and environments to experience a brief population explosion that produces more than 8,000 calves a day. Over three million large mammals of 35 different species fulfill the great migration.

The black rhino is also a leading feature of the Serengeti but visitors should be aware of Tanzania’s unfortunate experience with poaching. The black rhino population of the Serengeti has developed well in recent years thanks to constant surveillance and the shielding of the animals from mass tourism. Despite there are still only thirteen black rhinos in the Moru Kopjes area which can only be accessed at certain times on specific roads due to increased regulation. White rhinoceros are not found in the Serengeti.

Other animals frequently seen in the Serengeti include baboons, caracal, civet, bat-eared fox, genet, giraffe, hippo, honey badger, hyrax, mongoose, ostrich, serval, both Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelle, vervet monkeys and some 20 types of antelope including eland, hartebeest or kongoni, impala, kudu, reedbuck, roan, topi, waterbuck and the much smaller dik dik, duiker, klipspringer and oribi. There is, of course, also a profusion of birdlife. Over 500 species including bustards, cranes, eagles, herons, owls, storks, vultures and the bizarre, long-legged secretary birds. Gaudy agama lizards and rock hyraxes scuffle around the surfaces of the park’s isolated granite koppies and 100 varieties of dung beetles have also been found.