Serengeti National Park

The Serengeti National Park is one of the most famous wildlife sanctuaries in the world. With an area of 12,950 sqkm it symbolizes the classic African safari and its name, which means “endless plain” in the Maasai language, is totally justified.

With over two million wildebeest, half a million Thomson gazelles and a quarter of a million zebras, the Serengeti is one of the largest concentrations of wildlife and mammals in Africa. It is also synonymous with the annual migration of wildebeests and zebras. Although the zebras who join the migration are eight times less numerous than the wildebeests, they retain their family structure of a dozen members under the authority of a dominant stallion.

The southern part of the Serengeti is a landscape of meadows and plains dotted by “kopjes“ – rock outcrops often used by lions to take a nap, or the leopards to observe the plains.