Serengeti National Park

The world’s greatest safari

The Serengeti National Park is the beating heart of a Tanzania safari. Its name comes from the Maasai word siringet — “the place where the land runs on forever” — and that is exactly the feeling: nearly 15,000 square kilometres of open savannah supporting one of the last great wildlife spectacles on Earth.

It is most famous for the Great Migration, the year-round movement of over a million wildebeest shadowed by lions, cheetah, leopard and crocodile. Even outside migration season the resident wildlife is extraordinary and all of the Big Five can be seen.

The migration through the year

• January – March: Calving season in the southern Serengeti and Ndutu — hundreds of thousands of births and intense predator action.
• April – June: The herds move north and west; the Grumeti River crossings begin.
• July – September: The iconic Mara River crossings in the north.
• October – December: The herds return south as the short rains green the plains.

Regions of the Serengeti

We tailor your route to the season. The Seronera Valley offers superb year-round game viewing; the northern Serengeti is migration-crossing country from July; the southern plains and Ndutu are calving territory. See our Great Migration guide →