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Get swept away by Tanzania’s

vast landscapes ...

Serengeti National Park Maasai Villages Tarangire National Park
The Serengeti, which means “endless plain” Exploring Tanzania in a small group of only Tarangire National Park offers a diverse
in the Maasai language, is without a doubt 8-16 travelers, you'll get to interact with geological landscape as well as a variety
one of the most storied locales in all of members of the Maasai tribe, who live in of wildlife, including the largest recorded
Africa. The Serengeti stretches over 5,700 small villages throughout the region and concentration of breeding bird species
square miles of plains, riverine bush, and within the game reserves. In these villages, in the world. It comprises nine distinct
woodland, with a dominant environment enthusiastic young students attend school, vegetation zones, ranging from grassland to
of acacia grassland. In this huge protected women carry their babies on their backs, woodland, and from deep gully vegetation
area, the multitude and diversity of wildlife men tend to the community’s livestock, and to scattered rocky hilltops. The range of
species are unrivaled anywhere on the all the villagers carry on cultural traditions wildlife is impressive, from lion and cheetah
planet—especially during migration season, in their colorful dress. Maasai guides— to buffalo. Elephants are especially plentiful
when more than 200,000 zebra and one knowledgeable in the area’s unique flora here, traveling in large herds that are not
million wildebeest thunder across the plains and fauna and skilled at finding it—offer often seen elsewhere. And with our local
in pursuit of the rains. walking safaris and a chance to learn about O.A.T. Trip Leader and expert guides who
nature in a way that one might otherwise are adept at anticipating the movements
overlook during game-viewing drives. and behaviors of animals, we'll be able to
get up close without interrupting the natural
rhythms of life in the wild.
Wildebeest migration, Serengeti National Park
Safari Serengeti: Tanzania Lodge & Tented Safari

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