The Serengeti is Tanzania’s most famous park, and it has the largest concentration of migratory game animals in the word. It is also famous for its huge lion, leopard and cheetah population and is one of the best places on the continent to see them. Serengeti is derived from the Maasai language (Siringit) and appropriate means (endless plain). 

This park’s 5,700 square miles (14,763km) makes it larger than the state of Connecticut. Altitude varies from 3,120 to 6070 feet (950 to 1,850m). The park, a world heritage site, comprises most of the Serengeti ecosystem which is the primary migration route of the wildebeest. 

The Serengeti ecosystem also includes, Kenya’s Maasai Mara national reserve, bordering on the north: Loliondo Controlled Area, bordering on the northeast: The Ngorongoro conservation area, bordering on the southeast: Maswa game reserve, bordering on the southwest, Grumeti reserve and the Ikorongo controlled areas, bordering on the northwest. The western corridor of the park comes within 5 miles (8km) of Lake Victoria. Nearly 500 species of birds and 35 species of large plains animals can be found in the Serengeti. 

This park may contain as many as 1.5 million wildebeest, 500000 zebra, 300000 Grant’s gazelle, 250000 Thomson’s gazelle, 120000 Impala, 70000 Topi, 20000 Buffalo, 9000 Eland, 8000 Giraffe, 1000 Lion and 800 Elephant. Most of the Serengeti is a vast, open plain broken by rocky outcrops (Kopjes). There is also acacia savannah, savannah woodland, riverine forests, some swamps and small lakes.