Serengeti National Park by Amani Tours Size: 14,763 sq km (5,700 sq miles). Location:335km (208 miles) from Arusha, stretching North to Kenya and bordering Lake Victoria to the West. Serengeti Plains is Tanzania's oldest and most popular national park. The park is famed for its annual Serengeti wildbeest migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson's gazelle join the wildebeest's trek for fresh grazing. Yet even when the Serengeti migration is quiet, the plains offer arguably the most scintillating big game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala and Grant's gazelle.As enduring as the big game-viewing is the
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