Given Tanzania’s size, it takes a long time to drive between its many attractions. A typical route to the Serengeti National Park. The Serengeti National Park has multiple airstrips where you can land. Although it takes over seven hours to travel by car from Kilimanjaro International Airport, which is nearby, it only takes, on average, 45 minutes to fly to the Serengeti National Park, depending on which airstrip you land at.
One way to enhance the genuine experience of visiting the Serengeti is to arrive there quickly and without fatigue. Furthermore, it is Tanzania’s biggest national park. During the dry season, the park hosts the much-awaited wildebeest migration, when these creatures migrate to the neighboring Masai Mara game reserve in search of better pastures.
It’s a very amazing sight to see the wildebeest traveling thousands of kilometers to cross from the Serengeti to the Masai Mara. Everyone should get to experience it. Elephant and buffalo herds of impressive size can be found in the Serengeti. Another group of animals that make for interesting viewing are the gazelles and zebras, who travel with the millions of wildebeest to pass from the Serengeti National Park into the Masai Mara game reserve.
With flights to Serengeti, you will have a chance to visit the Serengeti national park any time of the year. Even in the wet season since you will not have to worry about the bad roads. You will need to work with your operator to make sure you pay the required permits. These will allow you to enter the park since you will not be using nay of the gates. The common airstrips in the Serengeti are…. The Seronera (SEU) airstrip, Kogatende (KOG) airstrip, Sasakwa Airstrip, Lobo (LOB) airstrip, Ndutu (NDT) airstrip, Kusini airstrip, Fort ikoma airstrip and Kirawira B Airstrip.
Seronera Airstrip
Seronera Airstrip is one of the airstrips in the Serengeti National Park. This is the largest and most used airstrips in the Serengeti national park. The park is located in the Seronera area and its about 1 kilometer south of the information center in Seronera. This airstrip is owned and managed by the government of Tanzania. The Tanzania Park authority runs the park on behalf of the Tanzania Airport Authority.
The airstrip is located about 1 hour from the main gate of the Serengeti National Park. You can fly from any location from within Tanzania and anywhere within East Africa to this airstrip. Some of the notable destinations you can fly to and from are……Arusha airport, Dar es Salaam, Kilimanjaro International Airport and Zanzibar…. Coastal Aviation which flies to and from Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Selous, Ndutu, Mwanza, Fort Ikoma, Grumeti, Manyara, Kilimanjaro, Kogatende, Lobo, Sasakawa, Ruaha, Tarime, Zanzibar and Entebbe.
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