Serengeti Wildlife Safari

A million wildebeest, each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfilling its instinctive function in the inescapable cycle of life; an excitement three-week boat of territorial conquests and mating; survival of the fittest as 40 kilometres or 25 miles long columns move suddenly through waters infested with crocodile on the annual exodus north; replenishing the species in a brief population explosion which provides over 8,000 calves everyday before the one thousand kilometres or six hundred mile pilgrimage starts again.
Serengeti, Tanzania’s oldest and most famous national park, is famous for its yearly migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plain, as over 200,000 zebras and three hundred thousand Thompson’s gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing. Yet even when the movement is quiet, the Serengeti provides arguably the most amusing game-viewing in the whole of Africa: great groups of buffalo, smaller herds of elephant and giraffe, and thousands of thousands of eland herds, topi, kongoni, impala and Grants’ gazelle.

The spectacle of predator against prey dominates Tanzania’s greatest park. Golden-maned lion prides fed on the plenty plain grazers. Solitary leopards disturb the acacia trees lining the Serohera River, while a high s density of cheetahs prowls the southern plains. Almost uniquely, all three African jackal species occur here, alongside the spotted hyena and a host s of more elusive small predators, ranging from the insectivorous ardwolf to the beautiful serval cat.

As enduring as the game-viewing, is the liberating sense of space which characterises the Serengeti plains, stretching across sun burnt savannah to a shinning golden horizon at the end of the earth. Yet, after the rains, this golden expanse of grass is changed into an endless green carpet covered with wildflowers. And there are also wooded hills and towering termite mounds, rivers lined with fig trees and acacia woodland stained orange by dust.

Though the Serengeti may be popular, it remains so large in that you might be the only human audience when a pride of lions masterminds a siege, focused steadily on its next meal.

Wildlife.
The Serengeti boasts big groups of antelope including Patterson’s eland, klipspringer, dikdik, zebra, gazelles, lion, impala, leopard, cheetah, hyena plus other larger mammals for example the rhino, giraffe, elephant and hippopotamus. Almost 500 species of birds have been registered in the park. The Serengeti is a chance for one of the best game-viewing in Africa.

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