The Serengeti National Park is one of the world’s last great wildlife refuge. This vast area of land covering 14,763 sq. kms supports the greatest remaining concentration of plain game in Africa, on a scale unparalleled anywhere else in the world. The name Serengeti comes from the Masai ‘Siringet’, meaning endless plains. The park contains an estimated three million large animals, most of which take part in a seasonal migration that is one of nature’s wonders and is the centre of the Serengeti ecosystem, roughly defined as the annual ‘wildebeest migration’ that serves as pasture for wild animals. The migration of more than 1.5 million Wildebeests accompanied by hundreds of thousands of Zebras and Gazelles help to preserve the species. Predators such as Lions, Leopards, Cheetahs, Hyenas and Crocodiles are too glutted to take advantage of all the opportunities. Vultures, marabou stocks and other eagles clear the skies to accumulate at the feast. There are some creatures living in the Kopjes. Best Time: For the migration from December to May in the South of the Park and from June to October to the Western Corridor and to the North.
