Long hailed as one of the wildest corners in all of Africa, the 14,000 odd square kilometres that form the Serengeti National Park are awash with prowling lions and sprightly cheetah, peppered with herds of colossal elephants and grazing buffaloes, shaped by sweeping grass plains, gloopy savannah mud swamps and endless clusters of exotic bush. This is unquestionably one of the best places to witness the natural processes of this wild continent happen, just as they have for thousands of years.

Safari goers from all over plan their visit to witness Serengeti’s single most-coveted attraction; the wondrous migration late summer, when six million hooves of primarily wildebeest (and giraffes and Thomson’s gazelle as well) pound the plains for fresh pastures. All other times, the vast park continues to scintillate with some amazing game viewing; timeless dances of survivals between the hunters and hunted, and roaming herds of assorted animals clustered around the region’s sporadic waterholes, not to miss an equally impressive array of birds and members of the insect Dom.

And once you’re done tracking them all across the African plains, why not ask your Serengeti tour guide about doing something altogether different, like soaring above the Serengeti on a hot air balloon tour, or getting your hit of human heritage by meeting some of the tribal bushmen of Tanzania’s outback and the Great Rift Valley.