Serengeti National Park Accommodation
Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge
The Serengeti Serena is set high on a hill with breathtaking vistas of a landscape teeming with game. The lodge design is simple but stunning, rich in local atmosphere created by indigenous handicrafts and art.
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Serengeti Sopa Lodge
Looking out over the seemingly endless Serengeti plains, this hillside lodge is a tranquil oasis set in thousands of square kilometres of National Park. Show me more . . .
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Kirawira Luxury Tented Camp (A Serena Hotels Property)
Set upon a hill in the western Serengeti, with commanding views of endless savanna, Kirawira Tented Camp offers luxurious sleeping and bathing arrangements, complemented by a valet service, and superb meals made-to-order from house cuisine or from guest recipes. Show me more . . .
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Mbuze Mawe Tented Camp (A Serena Hotels Property)
Located on one of the main annual migration corridors for over one million wildebeest, half a million zebras and gazelles, and their accompanying cast of predators, the camp enjoys a ringside seat for one of the greatest wildlife spectacles on earth. Show me more . . .
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Grumeti River Camp
quiet seclusion in a valley in the western corridor of the Serengeti, overlooking a tributary of the Grumeti River. Show me more . . .
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Kleins Camp
situated on 10 000 hectares of private land bordering north-eastern Serengeti. With sweeping views of the Grumeti River Valley, the camp comprises 10 twin-bedded cottages of local rock and thatch with en-suite bathroom and private terraces. Show me more . . .
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Migration Camp
Hidden amongst the rocky outcrops in Serengeti is a camp that exudes a decadence reminiscent of the Africa of old. Spacious tents overlooking the Grumeti River and its resident and often ‘vocal’ hippos have been carefully positioned to provide guests with a feeling of privacy. Show me more . . .
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Kusini Private Tented Camp (A and K Properties)
Perfectly sited in a cluster of kopjes, Kusini is a permanent tented camp blended seamlessly into the delicate environment of the predator-rich plains of the Serengeti. Show me more . . .
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Seronera Wildlife Lodge (Tahi)
The lodge is ideally located at the heart of the Serengeti plains to track the migration of wildebeest. Show me more . . .
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Lobo Wildlife Lodge (Tahi)
This is one of the finest buildings of its type. It is constructed entirely from wood and glass amid the rough and ragged contours of an enormous rocky headland in northern Serengeti, and blends perfectly with its surroundings. Show me more . . .
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Serengeti National Park Overview
A million wildebeest... each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfilling its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life: a frenzied three-week bout of territorial conquests and mating; survival of the fittest as 40km (25 mile) long columns plunge through crocodile-infested waters on the annual exodus north; replenishing the species in a brief population explosion that produces more than 8,000 calves daily before the 1,000 km (600 mile) pilgrimage begins again.
Tanzania's oldest and most popular national park, the Serengeti 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-maned 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 koppies. 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 endearing as the game-viewing is the liberating sense of space that characterizes the Serengeti Plains, stretching across sunburnt 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. And there are also 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.
About Serengeti National Park
Size: 14,763 sq km (5,700 sq miles).
Location: 335km (208 miles) from Arusha, stretching north to Kenya and bordering Lake Victoria to the west.
Getting there
Scheduled and charter flights from Arusha, Lake Manyara and Mwanza. Drive from Arusha, Lake Manyara, Tarangire or Ngorongoro Crater.
What to do
Hot air balloon safaris, Visit neighboring Ngorongoro Crater, Olduvai Gorge, Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano and Lake Natron's flamingos.
When to go
To follow the wildebeest migration, December-July. To see predators, June-October
NOTE:
The route and timing of the wildebeest migration is unpredictable. Allow at least three days to be assured of seeing them on your visit - longer if you want to see the main predators as well.
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