When it comes to safari in Africa especially Tanzania, Serengeti National Park will always be the number one to click in people’s minds, where is Serengeti one would ask, but the answer is a plan now to visit this great safari destination and you will never forget the experience. Serengeti National Park is the largest national park in East Africa in a country called Tanzania.
Serengeti is home to millions of wild animals, the small and the big. Serengeti National Park makes what is known as Serengeti Masai Mara Ecosystem which combines several game reserves like Maswa Game reserve, Grumeti Game Reserve, Loliondo, and Ikorongo Game controlled areas as well as a party of Ngorongoro Conservation Area at southern Serengeti. This extension also includes the Maasai mara Game Reserve in Kenya.
Serengeti National Park history.
The name Serengeti was derived from the Maasai word ‘Siringet’ by the Maasai nomadic people’s language (maa) which means the endless plains. The word itself is enough explanation of the legendary African savannah plains. Serengeti National Park was established during the fortress conservation times where two big tribes of Maasai and Kuria were moved out of the Serengeti. Kuria people were forced to go to the areas around Lake Victoria while Maasai was moved towards the southern Serengeti and Ngorongoro, later in 1951 Serengeti was then announced as a national park.
Serengeti National park is Tanzania’s oldest park covering an area of about 14,763 sq km of endless rolling plains, which spread up to the Kenyan border and extend almost to Lake Victoria. The park is flourishing with magnificent wildlife and it is no doubt that it is the most famous wildlife area in Africa. UNESCO has established two World heritage sites and two Biosphere Reserve in this area. Its unique environment has inspired writers, filmmakers as well as numerous photographers and scientists.
Serengeti is the place where the world-renowned Great Wildebeest Migration during the months from November up to the Middle of August. The movement of the mass wild animal back and forth from Serengeti to Masai Mara in Kenya is an amazing natural phenomenon involving more than one million and a half wildebeests accompanied by hundreds of thousands of zebras and gazelles walking thousands of miles in search of green pastures and water. Serengeti National Park Wildebeests Migration seems to have outshined the richness of resident animals and birdlife that flourish in the Serengeti yearly around but the truth is that a park is always a wonderful place with or without the existence of the migration herds.