"Serengeti" is derived from the Maasai word, which means "endless plains.” The name best befits this vast region in East Africa. Most of its land area covers the northern part of Tanzania while small part of Serengeti covers the southern part of Kenya.

Zebras, blue wildebeests, buffalos, lions and antelopes—you’ll see them everywhere in Serengetti. This region may be one of the poorest in the world (by the materialists’ standards), but it definitely isn’t when it comes to tribal culture, hospitality, and most especially, when it comes to its great variety of animals.

Every year, most especially in the months of June and July, millions of different variety of animals including zebras and wildebeests migrate towards the southern part of Serengeti, making this place one of the “seven wonders of the modern world.” Migration of these animals usually last for three weeks. They return sometime in October.

For a nature lover, such a usual sight of a cheetah playing with her young and gazelles freely running everywhere make a stay at Serengeti a worthwhile experience. Being there is like having a glimpse of the earth at a time when there was peace and harmony with nature and among its inhabitants, man and beasts alike.

By guest writer Khristine