Serengeti National Park

The Serengeti National Park is a Tanzanian National Park in the Serengeti ecosystem in the Mara and Simiyu regions. Its famous and well known for its annual migration of over 1.5million white beard and 250,000 zebras and variety of the Nile crocodiles and honey badgers. The name Serengeti is an approximation of the word used by the Maasai to describe the area, Siringet which means the place where the land runs on forever. The park gained more fame after the initial work of Bernhard Gizimek and his son Michael in the 1950s. The park is Tanzania’s oldest National Park and remains the flagship of the country’s tourism industry, offering a major draw to the northern safari circuit involing Lake Manyara National Park, Tarangire National Park, Arusha National Park and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. It has got 2,500 lions and more than 1 million wildebeest.