Game Drive Safaris in Serengeti National Park

Game Drive Safaris in Serengeti National Park : Serengeti national park us situated in northern Tanzania in the Eastern Mara region. It is positioned on 14763 square kilometers. This park was put in place in 1951 but initially in 1921,it was first gazetted as a game reserve by the British colonialists. This park is famous for sheltering a big number of wildlife and the wildebeest migration. Serengeti national park is under the management of Tanzania National Parks and this park is also a UNESCO heritage site. This park’s name is derived from a masai word “siringet” which means wide endless plain.

Serengeti national park is a shelter to over 300 mammal species and 500 bird species making it a one of the destination that a visitor should take as one of their choices to visit while in Tanzania. This park has over 1.2 million wildebeests, 30,000 buffaloes, 4000 lions, 1000 leopards, 550 cheetahs and many more mammal species. This park also has a lot of landscapes and other various sceneries that are eye catching to the tourists. These give visitors the urge to come and visit this national park. Serengeti is one if the destinations that has the big five mammals and therefore visitors who cone can get chance to see them while on game drives.

Serengeti national park has a number of attractions that it offers to it visitors and all the attractions can be seen at any time of the year when one visits the park in Tanzania. The attractions are the major reason as to why visitors come from their different locations to cone and visitors Serengeti national park. This park receives the biggest number of visitors in the dry season and this season is considered the peak season in the year unlike in the wet season when the park receives a less number of visitors in the park due to the less prediction of the weath6changes in the park.

The attractions that Serengeti national park offers to its visitors include birds, wildlife, masai Mara people, the wildebeest migration, olduvai gorge, retina hippo pool, moru kopjes, grumeti river, seronera river valley and many more. All these attractions have beautiful views that are eye catching to the tourists and they also give rewarding experiences to visitors who come to visit them. Here, a visitor can physically see and touch some of the attt3founf in this national park. Some of the attractions in Serengeti national park serve as habitats for the wildlife that resides in this park

The park also has a number of activities that it has to offer to visitors it visitors when they come to visit it. The activities in Serengeti national park are offered to visitors all year through though each activity has the seas8in which it is best offered. Some activities are best offered in the dry season while others are best offered in the wet season of the year. A visitor who visits this park to engage in these activities decide the time to come depending of the activities he or she wishes to carr6out but some come depending on the time that they are free to visit. Most visitors from different continents of the world prefer to come in the dry season because it is when it is more convenient when they are less rains that may complicate their visit.

The activities offered in Serengeti national park include game drives, hot air balloon safaris, bird watching, wildlife viewing, nature walks, cultural tours, visiting moru kopjes and many more. All these activities reward visitors with different experiences which leaves them excited. All these activities are done with the guidance of a tour guide that is given to visitors by the park management. This guides clarifies more or gives more details about the activities and how they are conducted at the park. The do’s and don’ts that are supposed to be known by the tourist before participating in any of the activities.

Game drives are one of the major activities done in Serengeti national park and these game drives are done either during the day or at night. These game drives are done in phases and these phases include the morning phase that starts at 6:00am, the afternoon phase that commences at 2pmand the evening phase that begins at 5pm. This game drives have a lot of differing and exciting experiences that they offer to visitors and they also reward visitors with different animals species according to the time that one decides to go there. Visitors are most likely to see the largest number of animals dur6the early morning game drives unlike in the evening when they ate retiring to their places of residence.

The best time to visit Serengeti national park for game drives is during the dry season in the months of June, July, August, September, December, January and February. This is when the routes in the park are dry and easily accessible by the tourists that come to visit. In the dry season the rain is less and therefore a number of animals can be spotted around water sources by the visitors. This saves time that visitors would take searching for them in the wet set season. The park trails are also slippery in the rain season which makes it less convenient for visitors to make movements around the park.

Serengeti national park charges the game drive fees according to the age if the tourist and it also considers whether the person is a citizen or not. The park fees are valid for 24 hours and after that duration one has to pay again in order to engage in the activity.  For non citizens, the children below 5 years participate for free, those between the age of 5 to 15 years pay 20 US dollars and 16 years and above pay 70 US dollars. For the East African citizens, children below 5 years partic6for free, those between the age of 5 and 15 years pay 2000kshs and then those between the age of 16 and above pay 10000kshs