Serengeti safari tips - by travel authority Howard Hillman

Best
Serengeti safaris

Safari tips you can trust

Why
the Serengeti is
the world's best
safari destination

The migration
is the reason

Make no mistake about it. Without the migration, I would rank the Serengeti behind these three famous safari destinations:

Ngorongoro Crater

Kruger National Park

Okavango Delta

The annual migration is that grand and mind-boggling.

Serengeti
tips and insights

Know when to be where

Be at the right place at the right time. Be where the migratory animals are. Use my animated month-by-month map:

Seasonal changes

The grassy plains dramatically change from season to season, as professional safari photographers know. During and just after the local rains, grasses are lushly green. Then, the land turns a parched yellowish brown.

Size

The Serengeti National Park is one of the world's largest game reserves. This renowned safari destination spreads over 13,000 square kilometers (5,000 square miles), an area greater than some countries.