To the north-east of Tanzania, between Lake Victoria and the border with Kenya, there is a huge territory of thousands of hectares of savannah, plains, forests and rivers which makes up Serengeti National Park.

“The place where the earth stretches away to infinity”, as the Maasai know it, is home to hundreds of species of animals including large numbers of elephants, lions, leopards, rhinoceros, buffalo and giraffes as well as a multitude of species of bird and especially the hundreds of thousands of gnus and zebras which migrate each year in immense herds over this exceptional area.

For UNESCO to classify it as a World Heritage site along with its neighbours, “Ngorongoro Conservation Area” and the “Maasai Mara” national park, is evidence alone that the park has kept its immaculate beauty intact due to the fact that people do not live within its confines.