Serengeti National Park

Best safari park in Africa is Serengeti National park, recognized by repute safari guide travel reviews. Serengeti was voted best park in 2015 and is real genuine wilderness game park to see wildlife in their natural environment. Major travel magazine like huffingtonpost of Canada tells all. The current travel news is the world travel awards, annouced Serengeti as leading national park, 6th time in row.

Wildebeest migration if one of wildlife safari unique travel event. Serengeti National Park in Tanzania was declared Seventh Wonder of the Current World on November 17th 2006. Serengeti is bordered to Masai Mara on Northern side. Masai Mara National Park is located on Kenya side, its size is sq kms 1510 while Serengeti is almost 10 times large than Masai Mara. The sq kms of Serengeti National Parkis 14763 sq kms.On Tanzania side Serengeti National Park is bordered to Ngorongoro Crater in most area.

Tanzania’s oldest and most popular national park, the Serengeti is famed for its annual migration.  Serengeti has some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson’s gazelle . Yet even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa. Serengeti great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe. Also, contain 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 enduring as the game-viewing is the liberating sense of space that characterises 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, focussed unswervingly on its next meal. 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

The Serengeti Migration even discounting the migration the Serengeti is superb. But the migration puts the park in a league of its own. It is, quite simply, the greatest wildlife show on Earth. Two million animals at times, mostly wildebeest and zebras, moving around an ecosystem 25,000 sq. km. in area, almost as big as the state of Massachusetts. But a lot wilder. At its most spectacular the Serengeti migration is one of the few experiences that really justify the word “awesome”, but to see it you have to know where and when to go, and it isn’t as predictable as some people might think, though over a period it does follow a fairly regular pattern.

There is no beginning or end to the migration but we’ll imagine it all starts with the onset of the “rainy season” (don’t be put off by this expression as the “green season”, as it is now often called, is a lovely time of year and usually nowhere near as wet or dismal as it sounds). The rains tend to begin around mid-November, when the big herds start to file into the south-eastern short-grass plains, around Naabi Hill, Lake Ndutu, the Gol Kopjes, Oldupai Gorge and all other parts of the short-grass plains. Between late January and mid-March the wildebeest  calving season takes place. At its peak about 80% of the pregnant females give birth within three weeks, collectively producing something like 8,000 babies each day.

The large predators, of course, are on hand to take advantage of this glut.Between mid-May and the month’s end, as the plains dry out, the whole menagerie, as if at the wave of a magic wand, streams off in columns which are sometimes 40 km. long, heading via the Moru Kopjes for the Western Corridor. On the way, the wildebeest rut takes place, for a period of about three weeks, from around mid-June to early July. Dr. Richard Estes, the greatest authority on the Serengeti wildebeest, has described the event as “unbelievably spectacular”.

It is certainly chaotic, as something like 250,000 males strive to mate with as many of the 750,000-or-so females as they can. Between June and August the migrating animals drink from and eventually cross the Grumeti River, but for many it will be their last drink or their last river crossing. For here in the Grumeti are crocodiles that grow to over five metres in length and weigh more than three-quarters of a tonne. They have jaws so thickset and powerful that they can crush a wildebeest’s head like a melon, then tear the body into bloody rags.

Usually after yanking the victim into the water. The great majority of wildebeest survive, to cross the Ikoma Controlled Area outside the park. And then pass through the Serengeti’s Northern Extension, crossing the next challenging river, the Mara, in July or August.

Accommodations in Serengeti National park accommodation is divided into several styles and choices. Accommodation types are Lodges, Luxury mobile camps, Luxury permanent tented camps and budget tented camps. Accommodations vary from levels of comfort, standard and budget and hence categorized in to stars. Safari Lodges starts from 3 stars, 4 stars and 5 stars while luxury camps vary from all inclusive luxury camps to normal luxury camps.

The prices of room per night in these safari lodges and luxury camps can determine your travel budget. Some of the Safari Lodges in Serengeti are Seronera Wildlife Lodge, Serena Lodges, Sopa Lodge etc. Camps are Mbalageti Luxury camp, Kusini luxury Camp, Seronera camp, Grumeti Camp,migration, Kleins camp and other luxury camps.For more information, planning and booking safari to Tanzania consult Kilimanjaro Tanzanite Safaris Ltd.

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