The Serengeti National Park is the heart and soul of Tanzania, offering the ultimate safari experience. This UNESCO World Heritage Site shares its borders with Kenya’s Maasai Mara to the north and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area to the south. Each year, it becomes the backdrop for the remarkable Great Wildebeest Migration, during which over two million animals traverse the Serengeti and the Mara.

Due to the reserve’s size, it is important to plan which area of the Serengeti you will stay in during any given time of the year, especially if you want to experience migration or avoid crowds. As a rule of thumb, from December to March, we recommend staying in the South-Central Serengeti, May to mid-July in the Western Corridor/Grumeti Reserve, and mid-July through November in the Northern Serengeti and Mara River areas.

The Central Serengeti has consistently good game viewing year-round. Each of these areas offers different landscapes:

• The northern Serengeti is hilly and sprinkled with rock kopjes.
• The central areas are mixed grass and woodlands.
• South is sprawling plains.