serengeti national park

The Serengeti National Park is one of the last great wilderness areas left in Africa. Huge open spaces, rolling grasslands that blend with the horizon, columns of snorting wildebeest trudging along ancient migration routes, smooth round rock kopjes with ancient rock paintings. The Serengeti is home to the famous migration, where over a million wildebeest take part in an annual journey around the Serengeti and Kenya's Masai Mara in search of fresh pastures, accompanied by hunting predators.

Best time to go: Wildlife is plentiful all year. The migration can be viewed in the Southern Serengeti from December to April, and from May to August in the North. Access can be limited during the wet months of April and May and long grass may make game viewing more difficult.