You'll be picked up from your hotel early in the morning and transferred to the airport for a flight to Serengeti. You'll arrive late in the morning at your hotel for lunch and a full afternoon game drive. As you fly over the Serengeti, you will see why the name means, in local language, "endless plains". The park has 6,900 sq. mile (18,000 sq. km) and for most of it, the plains will stretch to the horizon defying your senses and perception of distances. It is the home of the great migration and to 2 million wildebeests, hundreds of thousands of zebras and all kinds of antelopes. As for big cats and large predators, it's the place of choice to look out for lions, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, with many television scenes like the famous River Crossings having been filmed in this park. Smaller animals like foxes, honey badgers, jackals, baboons and African hares, together with more than 500 species of birds, inhabit this park.