Serengeti
The Great Migration
The Serengeti's endless grass plains give the park its name — 'Serengeti' derives from the Maasai word for 'endless plains' — and host the largest terrestrial mammal migration on Earth.
Serengeti National Park in northern Tanzania spans roughly 14,750 km² of savanna, woodland and riverine forest. It forms one continuous ecosystem with Kenya's Masai Mara to the north, and together they host the annual migration of over a million wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebra and gazelle.
Where the migration is at any given time of year depends on rainfall: the southern plains around Ndutu draw huge herds for calving season (roughly January–March), while the migration moves north through the central and western corridors before crossing into the Mara around July.
Beyond the migration, the Serengeti has excellent year-round resident game and some of the highest lion densities in Africa, along with healthy cheetah and leopard populations.
