At a glance
The Serengeti is one of the oldest ecosystems on earth; it protects the largest and most varied concentration of wildlife of the planet and is home to one of the biggest migrations that has occurred for millions of years; both vegetation and wildlife have not changed much since the time when the hominids lived in these lands, as witnessed by the remains found at Olduvai, which is better known as the “cradle of mankind”.
The Serengeti National Park in Northern Tanzania is one of the largest natural parks in Africa: nearly 15,000 sq.km. of grassland, savannah shrubs and forests; while the entire Serengeti ecosystem, covering an area of about 30,000 sq. km., encompasses the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the Maswa Reserve, the Grumeti Reserve, the Controlled Ikorongo Area, the Controlled Loliondo Area and the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.
The Serengeti National Park is one of the most filmed and documented parks in the entire Africa and has inspired famous writers, such as Hemingway; its low-grass plains are an icon that identifies the whole of Tanzania; the name "Serengeti" comes from "Siringit" in Maa language, the language spoken by the Maasai people, and it means "endless plains".
The Serengeti National Park was recognised World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1981; it is also one of the most famous and popular destinations of safari lovers for its high concentration of animals, but especially because this area is the setting of one of the most amazing natural phenomena in the world: the Great Migration.

Detailed trip itinerary
Day 1: Serengeti National Park, Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge (Fullboard)
You will be picked from your hotel in Arusha City CBD after breakfast and depart at 07:00 for Serengeti National Park to arrive time for lunch in the lodge. In the afternoon from 15:30 game drive in the park and dinner at 08:30 then overnight in Serengeti Serena Lodge.
- Game Drives
- Room Service
- Gift Shop
- Bar Lounge
- Spa & Massage treatments
- Swimming Pool
- Bush Breakfast & Sundowners
- Visit to Ol Duvai Gorge Paleolithic site
- Cultural Visits
- Business Lounge
- Conference Services
- Walking Safaris
- Swahili Lessons
Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge is an award-winning gem of a hotel in one of the most beautiful settings in Tanzania. Seamlessly blended high into an acacia-lined ridge, our African-style lodge and infinity pool offer panoramic views across the Serengeti’s vast, endless grasslands, where lions and cheetahs stalk their prey and massive migrating wildebeest herds darken the landscape in a relentless search for fresh grazing grounds.
Here, you will savour the ancient stillness and serenity of one of the most magnificent destinations on earth. Discover the warmth and cosiness of stone-built, traditionally thatched “rondavel” lodging. Dine under an indigo blanket of stars and enjoy unforgettable adventures and experiences ranging from private safaris and day trips to the prehistoric Ngorongoro Crater to Swahili lessons, guided nature walks and massage treatments.
Take pleasure in a Serengeti safari destination where time seemingly stands still and your room remains at the threshold of undisturbed, untamed Africa.
The Serengeti is one of the most famous parks in Africa and is synonymous with wildlife and classic African scenery. It is Tanzania's oldest park and a Unesco World Heritage Site. It is home to the spectacular wildebeest migration and offers top-class wildlife viewing throughout the year. The Serengeti offers some of the best wildlife viewing in Africa. All the major safari animals occur in great numbers. Cheetah and four of the Big 5 are easily seen, but rhino sightings are rare, and only black rhino are present. Aside from the big cats, many other predators can be spotted including spotted hyena (especially in the morning), jackal and bat-eared fox.
The Wildebeest Migration
Every year, over 2 million wildebeest, zebra and gazelle migrate from the Serengeti to the Masai Mara Reserve in Kenya. If you're there at the right time, you can spot herds of wildebeest and zebra stretching to the horizon.
Full List of Mammals found in Serengeti National Park:
- Aard-wolf
- African Buffalo
- African Civet
- African Dormouse
- African Elephant
- African Hare
- African Palm Civet
- African Striped Weasel
- African Wild Cat
- Angola Free-tailed Bat
- Ant Bear
- Banana Bat
- Banded Mongoose
- Bat-eared Fox
- Black and White Colobus
- Black Rhinoceros
- Black-backed Jackal
- Black-faced Vervet Monkey
- Black-tipped Mongoose
- Blue Duiker
- Blue or Sykes’ Monkey
- Bohor Reedbuck
- Bush Baby
- Bush Duiker
- Bush Pig
- Bush Squirrel
- Bushbuck
- Cane Rat
- Caracal
- Chanler’s Reedbuck
- Cheetah
- Clawless Otter
- Coke’s Hartebeest or Kongoni
- Common Waterbuck
- Common Zebra
- Defassa Waterbuck
- Dwarf Mongoose
- East African Hedgehog
- Eland
- Epauletted Fruit Bat
- False Vampire Bat
- Fringe-eared Oryx
- Giant Rat
- Giant White-toothed Shrew
- Golden Jackal
- Grant’s Gazelle
- Greater Galago
- Hippopotamus
- Hollow-faced Bat
- Hunting Dog
- Impala
- Kenya Mole Rat
- Kirk’s Dik-dik
- Klipspringer
- Lander’s Horseshoe Bat
- Large Grey Mongoose
- Large-spotted Genet
- Leopard
- Lesser Kudu
- Lesser Leaf-nosed Bat
- Lion
- Marsh Mongoose
- Masai Giraffe
- Olive Baboon
- Oribi
- Pale-bellied Fruit Bat
- Patas Monkey
- Porcupine
- Ratel or Honey Badger
- Red Duiker
- Roan Antelope
- Rock Hyrax
- Rousette Fruit Bat
- Serval
- Side-striped Jackal
- Small-spotted Genet
- Spectacled Elephant Shrew
- Spotted Hyaena
- Spring Hare
- Steinbok
- Striped Hyaena
- Suni
- Thomson’s Gazelle
- Topi
- Tree Hyrax
- Warthog
- White-bearded Gnu or
- White-bellied Tomb Bat
- White-tailed Mongoose
- Wildebeest
- Yellow-bellied Bat
- Yellow-winged Bat
- Zorilla
The Serengeti has more than 500 bird species recorded, and the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem is one of Africa's Endemic Bird Areas (land important for habitat-based bird conservation containing restricted-range bird species), hosting five bird species found nowhere else.
These specials are easy to locate within their restricted range. The grey-breasted spurfowl is common in the Seronera area. In woodland areas, parties of Fischer's lovebird draw attention to themselves and the rufous-tailed weaver is a fascinating bird placed in its own genus. The other two endemics are the Usambiro barbet and the grey-crested helmet-shrike. Migratory birds are present from November to April.
- Abdim’s Stork
- Abyssinian Scimitar-bill
- African Black Duck
- African Black Kite
- African Crake
- African Cuckoo
- African Darter
- African Fire Finch
- African Fish Eagle
- African Hawk Eagle
- African Hoopoe
- African Jacana
- African Kestrel
- African Marsh Owl
- African Moustached Warbler
- African Penduline Tit
- African Pied Wagtail
- African Pochard
- African Scops Owl
- African Skimmer
- African Snipe
- African Spoonbill
- African Wood Owl
- Angola Swallow
- Arrow-marked Babbler
- Ashy Flycatcher
- Ashy Starling
- Augur Buzzard
- Avocet
- Ayres’Hawk Eagle
- Banded Tit Warbler
- Bare-faced Go-away-bird
- Barn Owl
- Barred Owlet
- Bat Hawk
- Bateleur
- Bearded Woodpecker
- Beautiful Sunbird (black-bellied race)
- Black and White Cuckoo
- Black and White Mannikin
- Black and White-casqued
- Black Bishop
- Black Coucal
- Black Crake
- Black Cuckoo Shrike
- Black Rough-wing Swallow
- Black-backed Puff-back
- Black-bellied Bustard
- Black-breasted Apalis
- Blackcap Warbler
- Black-chested Harrier Eagle
- Black-faced Sandgrouse
- Black-headed Gonolek
- Black-headed Heron
- Black-headed Oriole
- Black-headed Tchagra
- Black-lored Babbler
- Black-necked Weaver
- Black-shouldered Kite
- Blacksmith Plover
- Black-winged Bishop
- Black-winged Plover
- Black-winged Stilt
- Blue-breasted Bee-eater
- Blue-capped Cordon-bleu
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
- Blue-cheeked Waxbill
- Blue-eared Glossy Starling
- Blue-headed Wagtail and races
- Blue-naped Mousebird
- Brimstone Canary
- Broad-billed Roller
- Bronze Mannikin
- Bronze-winged Courser
- Bronzy Sunbird
- Brown Harrier Eagle
- Brown Parrot
- Brown-chested Wattled Plover
- Buffalo Weaver
- Buff-backed Heron or
- Buff-bellied Warbler
- Button Quail
- Cape Quail
- Cape Rook
- Cape Wigeon
- Capped Wheatear
- Cardinal Quelea
- Cardinal Woodpecker
- Caspian Plover
- Cattle Egret
- Chestnut Sparrow
- Chestnut-banded Sand Plover
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
- Chin-spot Flycatcher
- Cinnamon-breasted Rock Buntin
- Cliff Chat
- Collared Sunbird
- Common Sandpiper
- Coqui Francolin
- Crested Francolin
- Crested Guinea-fowl
- Croaking Cisticola
- Crowned Crane
- Crowned Hornbill
- Crowned Plover
- Curlew
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Cut-throat
- D’Arnaud’s Barbet
- Dark Chanting Goshawk
- Didric Cuckoo
- Double-toothed Barbet
- Drongo
- Dusky Flycatcher
- Dusky Nightjar
- Eastern Grey Plantain-eater
- Egyptian Goose
- Egyptian Vulture
- Emerald Cuckoo
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
- European Bee-eater
- European Black Kite
- European Black Stork
- European Common Snipe
- European Common Wheatear
- European Cuckoo
- European Hobby
- European Hoopoe
- European Kestrel
- European Marsh Harrier
- European Nightjar
- European Rock Thrush
- European Roller
- European Sedge Warbler
- European Spotted Flycatcher
- European Swallow
- European Willow Warbler
- Fan-tailed Warbler
- Fan-tailed Widow-bird
- Fawn-coloured Lark
- Fiscal Shrike
- Fischer’s Lovebird
- Fischer’s Sparrow Lark
- Fischer’s Straw-tailed Whydah
- Flappet Lark
- Fulvous Tree Duck
- Gabar Goshawk
- Garden Warbler
- Garganey Teal
- Giant Kingfisher
- Golden-breasted Bunting
- Golden-winged Sunbird
- Goliath Heron
- Great Reed Warbler
- Great Snipe
- Great White Egret
- Great-crested Grebe
- Greater Flamingo
- Greater Honeyguide
- Greater or White-eyed Kestrel
- Great-spotted Cuckoo
- Green Pigeon
- Green Sandpiper
- Green Wood Hoopoe
- Green-backed Heron
- Green-headed Sunbird
- Greenshank
- Green-winged Pytilia
- Grey Flycatcher
- Grey Hornbill
- Grey Woodpecker
- Grey-backed Camaroptera
- Grey-backed Fiscal
- Grey-breasted Spurfowl
- Grey-headed Bush Shrike
- Grey-headed Gull
- Grey-headed Kingfisher
- Grey-headed Negro Finch
- Grey-headed Silverbill
- Grey-headed Social Weaver
- Grosbeak Weaver
- Ground Hornbill
- Gull-billed Tern
- Hadada Ibis
- Hamerkop
- Harlequin Quail
- Harrier Hawk
- Hartlaub’s Bustard
- Hartlaub’s Turaco
- Helmeted Guinea-fowl
- Heuglin’s Courser
- Hildebrandt’s Starling
- Holub’s Golden Weaver
- Hooded Vulture
- Hornbill
- Horus Swift
- Hottentot Teal
- Indigo-bird
- Jackson’s Bustard
- Jameson’s Fire Finch
- Kenya Violet-backed Sunbird
- Kittlitz Plover
- Klaas’ Cuckoo
- Kori Bustard
- Lanner
- Laughing Dove
- Lesser FlamingoHarrier Hawk
- Lesser Grey Shrike
- Lesser Honeyguide
- Lesser Kestrel
- Levaillant’s Cuckoo
- Lilac-breasted Roller
- Little Bee-eater
- Little Bittern
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Purple-banded Sunbird
- Little Sparrow Hawk
- Little Spotted Woodpecker
- Little Stint
- Little Swift
- Little Tawny Pipit
- Lizard Buzzard
- Long-crested Eagle
- Long-tailed Cormorant
- Long-tailed Nightjar
- Maccoa Duck
- Madagascar Bee-eater
- Magpie Shrike
- Malachite Kingfisher
- Malachite Sunbird
- Marabou Stork
- Mariqua Sunbird
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Martial Eagle
- Masai Ostrich
- Montagu’s Harrier
- Mosque Swallow
- Mottled Swift
- Mourning Dove
- Namaqua Dove
- Narina’s Trogon
- Northern Brubru
- Nubian or Lappet-faced Vulture
- Nubian Woodpecker
- Olive Sunbird
- Open-bill Stork
- Painted Snipe
- Pale Chanting Goshawk
- Pale Flycatcher
- Pallid Harrier
- Palm Swift
- Paradise Flycatcher
- Paradise Whydah
- Pearl-spotted Owlet
- Pectoral-patch Cisticola
- Pennant-wing Nightjar
- Pied Kingfisher
- Pink-backed Pelican
- Pin-tailed Whydah
- Purple Grenadier
- Pygmy Falcon
- Pygmy Kingfisher
- Quail Finch
- Rattling Cisticola
- Red Bishop
- Red-backed Scrub Robin
- Red-backed Shrike
- Red-billed Duck
- Red-billed Fire Finch
- Red-billed Hornbill
- Red-billed Quelea
- Red-capped Lark
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
- Red-chested Cuckoo
- Red-eyed Dove
- Red-faced Crombec
- Red-fronted Barbet
- Red-fronted Tinkerbird
- Red-headed Quelea
- Red-headed Weaver
- Red-necked Spurfowl
- Red-rumped Swallow
- Red-tailed Shrike
- Red-throated Pipit
- Red-throated Tit
- Richard’s Pipit
- Ringed Plover
- Ring-necked Dove
- Ross’s Turaco
- Rosy-breasted Longclaw
- Ruff
- Rufous Chatterer
- Rufous Sparrow
- Rufous-naped Lark
- Rufous-tailed Weaver
- Ruppell’s Long-tailed Starling
- Ruppell’s Vulture
- Sacred Ibis
- Saddle-bill Stork
- Sandy Plain-backed Pipit
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird
- Schalow’s Turaco
- Scimitar Bill
- Secretary Bird
- Senegal Plover
- Shelley’s Francolin
- Shikra
- Short-tailed Lark
- Silverbird
- Slate-coloured Boubou
- Sooty Chat
- South African Black Flycatcher
- Speckled Mousebird
- Speckled Pigeon
- Spectacled Weaver
- Spotted Eagle Owl
- Spotted Stone Curlew
- Spotted-flanked Barbet
- Spur-winged Goose
- Squacco Heron
- Steel-blue Whydah
- Steppe Buzzard
- Steppe Eagle
- Stork
- Straight-crested Helmet Shrike
- Streaky Seed-eater
- Striped Kingfisher
- Striped Pipit
- Striped Swallow
- Sulphur-breasted Bush Shrike
- Superb Starling
- Swahili Sparrow
- Tambourine Dove
- Tawny Eagle
- Tawny-flanked Prinia
- Temminck’s Courser
- Three-banded Plover
- Tiny Cisticola
- Tropical Boubou
- Two-banded Courser
- Variable Sunbird
- Verreaux’s Eagle
- Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
- Vieillot’s Black Weaver
- Violet Wood Hoopoe
- Violet-backed Starling
- Violet-backed Sunbird
- Von der Decken’s Hornbill
- Wahlberg’s Eagle
- Wahlberg’s Honeyguide
- Water Dikkop
- Wattled Plover
- Wattled Starling
- Wattle-eye
- Waxbill
- White Pelican
- White Stork
- White-backed Vulture
- White-bellied Bustard
- White-bellied Canary
- White-breasted Tit
- White-browed Coucal
- White-browed Robin Chat
- White-browed Sparrow Weaver
- White-crowned Shrike
- White-faced Tree Duck
- White-headed Barbet
- White-headed Buffalo Weaver
- White-headed Vulture
- White-naped Raven
- White-rumped Swift
- White-throated Bee-eater
- White-throated Robin
- White-winged Black Tern
- White-winged Widow-bird
- Winding Cisticola
- Wire-tailed Swallow
- Wood Ibis or Yellow-billed
- Wood Sandpiper
- Woodland Kingfisher
- Wooly-necked Stork
- Yellow Bishop
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela
- Yellow-billed Duck
- Yellow-billed Egret
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker
- Yellow-billed Waxbill
- Yellow-fronted Canary
- Yellow-mantled Widow-bird
- Yellow-throated Longclaw
- Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
- Yellow-vented Bulbul
Day 2: Serengeti National Park, Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge (Fullboard)
This day full day game drive from 08:00 in Serengeti National Park with packed lunch to be consumed in a designated place. You shall plenty of time to visit a Maasai Village which is optional before dinner at 18:30 and overnight in Serengeti Serena Lodge.
Day 3: Depart, Arusha (Lunch)
After breakfast at 07:00 drive to Arusha where en-route you will visit of Olduvai Gorge for exploration and packed lunch then proceed Arusha City for either overnight, to connect to your next destination.
End of the safari
Tour Inclusions
Transport as per itinerary
All park fees
All game drives as per the itinerary in 4WD land cruiser
All our transport has insurance
2 litres of mineral water per day per person
Tour Exclusions
Drinks
Tips for the service
Yellow fever vaccination
Visa
Things of personal use

Easter & Christmas Surcharges
A surcharge would be charged per person per night on Good Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Easter Monday and on 24th 25th, 26th, 31st December and 1st January. The Surcharge would be confirmed at the time of booking for clarity purposes.
For optimal enjoyment of your safari, we urge you to carry the following:
All weather firm shoe pair, short and dress to use during the day, trouser for use in the evenings with long sleeved shirt, sweater or jacket, hat, swimming costume, sunglass, camera, binocular, sun protection cream and insect repellent spray or cream.