The Serengeti is Tanzania's oldest and most popular National Park covering an area of about 14,750sq km.  Famed for its annual migration, the largest mass movement of wildlife in the world with about 1.5 million wildebeest,250,000 zebra amongst other game that pound their hooves in search of pasture.

The Serengeti is well known for its abundant resident wildlife, with lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo, cheetah, Thomson's and Grant's gazelle, topi, eland, waterbuck, hyena, baboon, impala, the African wild dog and giraffe to name a few. The park also boasts about 500 species of birds making this a perfect destination for bird watchers.

The landscape consists of grassland plains, savanna, riverine forest woodlands and is dotted with a number of granite and gneiss outcroppings known as kopjes, which are large rocky formations that are the result of volcanic activity. The Simba Kopje being a popular tourist stop.