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Serengeti

Northern circuit

Serengeti National Park: The Heartbeat of Africa

The Serengeti is not just a destination, it's a feeling, a rhythm, a world where nature writes its own poetry.

Endless plains, endless movement

Golden plains run further than the eye can hold, and across them moves the largest wildlife migration on Earth. Lions lie on ancient kopjes watching their kingdom, elephants cross the grass at sunrise, cheetahs race the wind, and millions of wildebeest pour over the horizon in a single, unbroken line.

Africa's masterpiece

The experience is surreal: distant roars carried through the night, sunsets that burn from gold into deep red, and long stretches of peaceful savannah silence broken only by wind in the grass. However far you travel afterwards, the Serengeti stays with you. It is, quite simply, Africa's masterpiece.

How we route it

We choose your camp by month, not by brand. In the green season we sit south near the calving grounds; from June we move west along the Grumeti; by late July we are north within reach of the Mara River crossings.

From the field

A coalition of cheetahs watching the Serengeti plains from a termite mound
Serengeti sunriseEndless golden plains and ancient kopjes.
Wildebeest and zebra crossing a track in front of a safari vehicle
Wildlife encountersLions, cheetahs and elephants on the plains.
Wildebeest and zebra fording the Mara River
The Great MigrationMillions of wildebeest painting the horizon.
Wildebeest and zebra crossing a wide river during the Great Migration
River crossingsThe most dramatic hour of the migration year.
Thousands of wildebeest and zebra massed on the banks of the Mara River
Massing on the bankThe wait before the herds commit to the water.
A cheetah mother and her cubs resting on a grassy mound in the Serengeti
Big cat countryCheetah families on the open short-grass plains.
Wildebeest and a calf crossing a green Serengeti track ahead of safari vehicles
On the moveThe herds cross the tracks in front of you, calves in tow.
Travellers posing with a Tanzania Lioness Adventure vehicle at the Serengeti National Park gate
Naabi GateOur guests at the Serengeti entrance, our own vehicle behind them.
Guests and guides jumping for a photo under the Serengeti National Park entrance sign
Arrival dayThe obligatory jump under the park sign — nobody skips it.

Plan with us

Tell us when you can travel. We'll tell you where the good light is.

Every itinerary is drawn by hand in our Arusha office — routing, pacing, camps and honest budget ranges. One conversation is usually enough to know whether we're the right fit.