GAME PARKS AND RESERVES

Serengeti National Park

Covering 5,675 square miles and contiguous with Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, Serengeti National Park is Tanzania’s largest and most famous park. Tens of thousands of hoofed animals, constantly searching for fresh grasslands, sweep across its vast treeless plains. More than 1 million wildebeests are the chief herbivores and the main prey of the large carnivores, such as the lions, and the hyenas. In fact, the spectacular annual migration of wildebeest herds represents the Serengeti's main attraction. Just a few of the other animals calling the park home are leopards, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, giraffes, elephants, zebras, antelopes, monkeys and baboons, crocodiles, jackals, warthogs, and nearly 500 species of birds.