Fourteen thousand square kilometres of plains, and the stage for the whole wildebeest migration — which is not an event but a year-round circuit the herds never stop walking. Where they are depends on the month, so the Serengeti rewards planning more than any other park in East Africa.
Every one of these is something we run here, not a stock list.
Prices are per person and include your vehicle, guide, park fees and accommodation. Every one of these can be changed — they are starting points.
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6 Days/5Nights.
11 Days Exploring Kenya and Tanzania
Serengeti National Park, a World Heritage Site, is brimming with wildlife: it's home to over 2 million ungulates, 4,000 lions, 1,000 leopards, 550 cheetahs, and around 500 bird species across nearly 15,000 square kilometers. Embark on a safari to traverse the vast Serengeti plains, speckled with trees and kopjes where regal lions survey their domain; witness the awe-inspiring Great Migration or track down a stealthy leopard in the riverine woods. Alternatively, take in the panoramic views from a hot air balloon as you glide above the plains at dawn.
Most safaris here combine two or three of these.
A collapsed volcano twenty kilometres across with twenty-five thousand animals living on the floor of it, walled in by a six-hundred-metre rim. It is the one place in East Africa where seeing all of the Big Five in a single morning is an ordinary outcome rather than a lucky one.
Tarangire has the baobabs and the elephants. In the dry season the river is the only water for miles and the herds concentrate on it — three and four hundred elephant in a day is not unusual, which beats anything the Serengeti offers. It is two hours from Arusha and usually the first stop on a northern circuit.
A narrow strip of forest, lake and floodplain under the Rift Valley escarpment, famous for lions that sleep in the acacia branches. It is small enough to see in half a day and sits directly on the road between Arusha and the Ngorongoro Crater, so it costs an itinerary almost nothing.
Where an East African safari ends. Zanzibar is an hour's flight from Arusha: white sand, warm water, and Stone Town, a thousand-year-old trading port of carved doors and narrow lanes that is a UNESCO World Heritage site in its own right. Three nights here changes what the whole trip felt like.
Tell us roughly when you can travel and how long you have. We will tell you honestly whether Serengeti National Park is the right call for those dates — and what it costs.
