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Is one of the biggest and famous national parks in Tanzania. Considered Patrimony of the Humanity from 1981. It is located among the Ngorongoro high lands, Victoria lake and Maasai Mara National Park in Kenya. It's name come from the maasai word Siringeti that means "never ending plain" due to its spectacular landscape an immense savannah, without trees that seems really not to have end."

The sensation you have is to be in the middle of a never ending ocean, an ocean sprinkled by some kopjes, granites formations, some of them the oldest rocks in the earth.

One of its biggest attraction is the "Great Migration" that begins when the rain season finish and begins the dry season. the animals meet together to go toward the north and the west in food search. February is time of wildebeest reproduction, more than 8000 wildebeest are born every day which 40% dies before arriving to have 4 months old.

If you enter in the park through "Naabi Hill gate" (coming from Arusha) while the guides pay the entrance fees, you can catch the path behind the hut and go up to a small mound where you will have a formidable view of the park.

In general, we can observe short grass plains and the high grasses plains in the south, sprinkled savannah from acacias in the center, mountains in the north and forest in the west near the lake Victoria.

Features - Serengeti National Park Established: 1951. Area: 14.763 sq km. Location: Latitude 1 28` & 3 17`s and Longitude 33 50` 35 20`e. Altitude: Of 920 to 1.850 m above sea level. Features: the great migration to Maasai Mara and the never ending plain. Wildlife: Lion, hyena, baboon, buffalo, zebras, cheetah, giraffe, leopard, wildebeest, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, caracal, Dik-Dik, foxes, hartebeest, warthog, hyraxes, impala, topis, jackals, reedbuck, kudu, mongooses, monkeys, roan antelopes, Oryx, Thomson and grant gazelles, chameleons, crocodiles, lizards, turtles, snakes, pythons, birds. Distances: 277 km. from Arusha (5-6 hours). When to go: All year Facilities: Lodges, camp sites, petrol station and aerodrome. Lodges: Serengeti Sopa Lodge, Ndutu Lodge, Serengeti Serena Lodge, Seronera Wildlife Lodge, Lobo Wildlige Lodge, Cleans Camp, Serena Kirawira Camp, Imigration Camp, Serengeti Grumeti Camp, Kusini Camp.

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