After breakfast, you start on your way to Serengeti National Park (driving time some 4 hours, but with plenty to see on the way! Begin to understand the reason behind this name. Once you’ve seen enough games for the day, it will be on to your nearby lodge in time for dinner. After stopping for a picnic lunch on a kopje (rock outcropping) it will be time to head further into the park and begin your game drive. You pass through the green Savannah where elephants and giraffes roam, through a stretch of territory that is rarely visited by travelers, to reach the central Serengeti. The name Serengeti comes from the Maasai word, “Siringet” referring to an endless plain.

As you traverse the park on the way you will stop at the Olduvai Gorge where anthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey made many significant discoveries, contributing to the theory that human life originated in Africa. En route, you will see grazing zebras, antelopes and giraffes, and sometimes some Buffalos hiding in the bush. The South Serengeti ecosystem belongs partly to the Serengeti National park and partly to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

Depending on the time of year and the migration of the herds you can expect to see wildebeest, Lions, Elephants, Giraffes, Zebras, Monkeys, Baboons, Hippos, Rhinos, Antelopes, and many birds and other species. After the game drive, you will drive to your Lodge/Tented Camp/Campsite in Serengeti, where you arrive in time for your dinner. and overnight.