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Serengeti National Park


Lion on kopje scanning the plains for prey in Serengeti National Park

Wildebeest attempting to cross the Grumeti River in Serengeti National Park

Sundowner in the open in Serengeti National Park

The Serengeti has the biggest collection of plains animals anywhere in the world. You will see scenes of grazing nearly everywhere you go. A typical view from the window of your safari vehicle or while standing up from the inside of your safari vehicle might be a harem of Impalas while a herd of Thompsons Gazelles pass by. Littering the background; lions on a rock kopje in the Serengeti. In Serengeti National Park, Tanzania will be Zebras, Wildebeest, and a few Cape Buffalo. If the area is wooded there will be Giraffes and Elephants.

Tanzania's oldest and most popular national park, the Serengeti National Park is famed for its annual migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson's gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing. Yet even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, Kongoni, impala and Grant’s gazelle.

The spectacle of predator versus prey dominates Tanzania’s greatest park. Golden-manned lion prides feast on the abundance of plain grazers. Solitary leopards haunt the acacia trees lining the Seronera River, while a high density of cheetahs prowls the southeastern plains. Almost uniquely, all three African jackal species occur here, alongside the spotted hyena and a host of more elusive small predators, ranging from the insectivorous aardwolf to the beautiful serval cat.

But there is more to Serengeti than large mammals. Gaudy agama lizards and rock hyraxes scuffle around the surfaces of the park’s isolated granite kopjes. A full 100 varieties of dung beetle have been recorded, as have 500-plus bird species, ranging from the outsized ostrich and bizarre secretary bird of the open grassland, to the black eagles that soar effortlessly above the Lobo Hills.

As enduring as the game-viewing is the liberating sense of space that characterizes the Serengeti Plains, stretching across sun-burnt savannah to a shimmering golden horizon at the end of the earth. Yet, after the rains, this golden expanse of grass is transformed into an endless green carpet flecked with wildflowers. In addition, there are wooded hills and towering termite mounds, rivers lined with fig trees and acacia woodland stained orange by dust.
Popular the Serengeti might be, but it remains so vast that you may be the only human audience when a pride of lions masterminds a siege, focused unswervingly on its next meal.

 
 
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Mombasa, Kenya.
Tel: (254) 733-777132, (254) 721-348376

Email: victor@safarihotel.info
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