A short guide about Serengeti
Serengeti is the best known game park of Tanzania and probably also in the world. The park measures almost 15,000 square km and here are almost all the animals in a perfect surrounding for your photo album. On the Serengeti plains there are literally millions of hoofed animals, which are constantly on the move in search of grassland and are watched and preyed upon by a variety of predators.
The Serengeti ecosystem is located in north-western Tanzania and extends to south-western Kenya, spanning some 30,000 km. The region contains several national parks and game reserves. Approximately 70 larger mammals and some 500 avifauna species are found there. These animals’ diverse habitats range from forests, swamps, kopjes, grasslands and woodlands. Blue Wildebeests, gazelles, zebras and buffalos are some of the commonly found large mammals in the region.
The Serengeti hosts the largest and longest overland migration in the world, a semi-annual occurrence. This migration is one of the ten natural travel wonders of the world. Around October, nearly 2 million herbivores travel from the northern hills toward the southern plains, crossing the Mara River, in pursuit of the rains. In April, they then return to the north through the west, once again crossing the Mara River. This phenomenon is sometimes called the Circular Migration. Over 250,000 wildebeest alone will die along the journey from Tanzania to Masai Mara Reserve in upper Kenya, a total of 500 miles. Death is often caused by injury, exhaustion, or by predators.
Tourabout has a large variety of travel packages to the Serengeti Park, as it is also well known for its healthy stock of other resident wildlife, particularly the "Big Five", named for the five most prized trophies taken by hunters, lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo.