Serengeti National Park

This iconic national park is a UNESCO world heritage site, home to the  largest predator population in the world which includes lions, leopards, cheetahs, and spotted hyenas. The park’s name, Serengeti, comes from the Maasai word Siringet, which means “the place where the land seems to have no end/limit”. The park’s vast plains of savannah are dotted with trees and kopjes and sustain over 28 species of herbivores, including buffalos, wildebeests, zebras, elands, hippos, and waterbucks as well as over 530 species of birds, a quarter of which migrate through the park annually. The largest remaining unaltered animal migration in the world takes place in the Serengeti where over one million wildebeest plus hundreds of thousands of other ungulates engage in a 1,000 km long annual circular trek spanning the two adjacent countries of Kenya and Tanzania to calve and search for fresh water and grazing.