The Serengeti National Park, famous for the spectacular Wildebeest Migration, is the largest National Park in Tanzania. Gazetted in 1951 this is also Tanzania’s oldest National Park. The Masai, who before the creation of the park grazed their cattle on these plains, named the area ‘Siringitu’ or ‘endless plain.’ The book and film ‘Serengeti shall not die’ was instrumental in bringing this area to the attention of the world. Today the Serengeti attracts more than 90,000 tourists each year and due to the ecological significance and biodiversity of the Park it has been listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

The Park covers an area of 14,763 square kilometres and can be divided into three different regions, the grassy Serengeti plains to the South, dotted with ‘Kopjes’ or granite florations, the Western corridor comprising of mainly swampy land with black clay soil, and finally the Northern sector which boasts open woodland and hills stretching from the Seronera in the South to the Mara River on the border with Kenya. These three regions support a wide range of wildlife species as well as around 500 bird species. The plains game – wildebeest, zebra, gazelle, hartebeest, topi, buffalo, impala and others thrive on the grassy plains and can be found in huge numbers during the wet season while to the North elephant and giraffe roam. Over 1 million wildebeest and approximately 200,000 zebra journey through the Western Corridor during the months of May - July, moving on to the Northern sector July through to August and finally completing their journey when they reach the South in October. The Serengeti boasts the largest population of lion in Africa, thought to be due to the abundance of prey.

See Soroi Serengeti Lodge Information