Serengeti Safari Migration Park Visit

The Serengeti is the best known safari destination in the world with good reason. The proliferation of animal life in the Serengeti simply defies belief. You should build your safari in northern Tanzania around Serengeti, but don't waste your time by going only to the major tourist traps. It's still surprisingly easy to get away from crowds on safari in the Serengeti.

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At Natural High, we've all lived and worked in Africa, so our knowledge is born of hands-on experience rather than simply visiting on holiday. We can't over-stress how worthwhile it is to take a few minutes to call us. We're not in the business of churning out thousands of packages so if you'd like to discuss things in detail, take a few minutes and call Catherine, Fiona, Vanessa & Alex on +44(0)1747 898104.

The Serengeti is Tanzania's largest parkand probably one of the best known safari destinations in the world. It's bordered by the Ngorongoro Crater and Highlands and the Great Rift Valley to the east, and to the West by Lake Victoria. The main park, which covers around 15,000 sq km, is drained to the west by three main rivers, the Mara, Grumeti and Mbalageti Rivers. This area forms only a part of the whole Serengeti-Mara ecosystem, which extends to the surrounding game reserves; Maswa to the southwest, Grumeti and Ikorongo controlled areas to the west, Loliondo to the east and the Maasai Mara in Kenya to the north.

The Serengeti is probably best known for the awe inspiring Wildebeest Migration in which millions of animals circulate through the ecosystem annually, moving onto the 5000 sq km of grassland in the wet and retreating to the woodland areas in the dry. The migration is undoubtedly one of the most dramatic wildlife spectacles any where in the world and with a little luck we can get you right into the middle of it - sitting in a vehicle surrounded by 10's of thousands of wildebeest and all the accompanying noise is an experience you won't quickly forget. Getting you there is one of our main goals for your safari, so we spend a great deal of energy in trying to send you to the right places - have a look at catching the migration for further information.

But it's not all about the migration The park is home to prolific species of bird and mammal, not to mention plants and insects. This is somewhere you feel as though you've walked into a wildlife documentary. With luck and a little patience you can and will see extraordinary thing happening in front of your eyes. One of the truly amazing things about the Serengeti particularly when you think of it's size (almost 15,000 sq km) is how incredibly accessible so much of it is. Combine with that the fact that few people visit any but the most obvious places and you have an area that offers the potential for a superb wilderness safari.

Furthermore, each of the regions is so different that it is really impossible to treat the park as a single entity. So we don't, instead we look at each as almost a separate park. When you visit the Serengeti we think it's well worth while if time allows, to visit more than just one of these locations on safari - wherever the wildebeest migration happens to be and at least one other place, to give you a proper feel for the diversity the Serengeti offers.

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