Serengeti is
one of the greatest national parks
in the world, the park gets its name
from the Masai word Serenget meaning
'endless plains'. The
Serengeti greets you with a sight of
miles and miles of endless African
 savannahs filled with wild animals.
This park draws
thousands of people from all over the world to
witness the much acclaimed migration
of the wildebeest - one of the most
fascinating sights in the world.
This is the best place in the world
to see 'The Big
Five' - the lion, the leopard, the
buffalo, the rhino and the elephant. The park also houses plenty of
herbivores. You will see a gazelle,
an impala, a zebra or an antelope in
every square feet of the park,
chances of them getting killed by a
carnivore is much higher then them
dying a natural death. Each cat has
its favourite prey and hence each
herbivore has its deadliest enemy.
The thomson's gazelle is the fastest
of all herbivores. At 60 mph, it can
easily outrun all the cats except of
course the cheetah. The park has
wide varieties of antelopes from the
dikdik, the smallest antelope in the
world, to the eland, the biggest.
Dikdiks are actually captured alive
by the lions and they use them to
teach their cubs the art of hunting. The park also has a few hippo
pools and a crocodile pool. The
crocodiles can survive upto 2 years
without food. They swallow stones
during the extended famine. They
regurgitate the stones once the food
b ecomes available. Among the birds
there are the ostriches - the
biggest bird, the kori bustard - the
biggest flying bird, the vultures,
the eagles, the kites and the
crowned crane - the national bird of
Uganda.
The camping in this park, unlike
the smaller ones, is generally
inside its boundaries. Sleeping in
the wild with constant growling of
the lions and munching of the
giraffes and buffalos must be an
experience of one's lifetime.
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