Serengeti is easily Tanzania’s most famous national park, and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometres of protected area that borders Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Park. Its far-reaching plains of endless grass, tinged with the twisted shadows of acacia trees, have made it the quintessential image of a wild and untarnished Africa. Its large stone kopjes are home to rich ecosystems, and the sheer magnitude and scale of life that the plains support is staggering. Large prides of lions laze easily in the long grasses, plentiful families of elephants feed on acacia bark and trump to each other across the plains, and giraffes, gazelles, monkeys, eland, and the whole range of African wildlife is in awe-inspiring numbers. The annual wildebeest migration through the Serengeti and the Masai Mara attract visitors from around the world, who flock to the open plains to witness the largest mass movement of land mammals on the planet. More than a million animals make the seasonal journey to fresh pasture to the north, then the south, after the biannual rains. The sound of their thundering hooves, raising massive clouds of thick red dust, has become one of the legends of the Serengeti plains. The entire ecosystem thrives from the annual migration, from the lions and birds of prey that gorge themselves on the weak and the faltering to the gamut of hungry crocodiles that lie in patient wait at each river crossing for their annual feed.
7 nights/8 days From ZAR 28,312-52 per person sharing (single rate available on request).
Includes:
Flights to and from Tanzania, complimentary return airport transfers, 6 nights Full Board accommodation (except for the 1st evening in Arusha which is on a Bed and Breakfast basis).
Excludes: Meals, beverages and activities not specified as well as all items of a personal nature.
*PLEASE MAKE SURE TO ENQUIRE WITH US FOR VALUE ADDED EXTRAS:
Serengeti Hot Air Ballooning or-/ and night drive/canoeing at Lake Manyara
(*Subject to availability at time of booking).
Validity: 01 July 2011 until 30 September 2011
Q reference – 13886
Valid for SADC Residents only.
E.&O.E.
