Serengeti wani katon muhalli ne da ke tsakiyar Afirka. Yankinsa ya kai murabba'in kilomita 30, don haka yana bayyana sunan wurin shakatawa, wanda a cikin fassarar daga harshen Masai yana nufin.
Gidan shakatawa na kasa yana arewacin Tanzaniya kuma ya wuce zuwa kudu maso yammacin Kenya. Ya hada da gandun dajin Serengeti da kansa da kuma adadin ajiyar da gwamnatocin kasashen biyu ke karewa. Yankin yana wakiltar ƙaura mafi girma a duniya kuma sanannen wurin safari ne na Afirka.
Yanayin Serengeti yana da wadata iri-iri: lebur saman acacias, filayen dutse, buɗaɗɗen ciyayi masu iyaka da tuddai da duwatsu. Babban yanayin zafi tare da iska mai ƙarfi yana haifar da matsanancin yanayi a yankin. Ol-Doinyo-Lengai ya “kafa” iyakar wurin shakatawa, dutsen mai aman wuta daya tilo a yankin wanda har yanzu yana fashewa da lavas na carbonatite wanda ke zama fari lokacin da aka fallasa shi zuwa iska.
Serengeti gida ne ga dabbobi iri-iri: blue wildebeest, gazelles, zebras, baffaloes, zakuna, kurayen da aka hange - sun saba da duk masu sha'awar fim din Disney The Lion King. Fari da annoba ta shanu a cikin 1890s sun yi mummunan tasiri ga yawan mutanen Serengeti, musamman na daji. A tsakiyar shekarun 1970s, lambobin daji da bauna sun murmure. Ba manyan dabbobi masu shayarwa ba ne kawai mazaunan dajin na kasa. Kyawawan agama-lizards da tsaunin tsaunuka suna cikin kwanciyar hankali a cikin tuddai masu yawa - tsaunin dutsen mai aman wuta. An yi rijistar irin ƙwaro 100 na dung a nan!
Maasai sun yi kiwon shanu a filayen yankin kusan shekaru 200 kafin masu binciken Turai su isa yankin. Masanin ilimin kasa kuma mai bincike na Jamus Oskar Baumann ya shiga Maasai a 1892, kuma Stuart Edward White dan Burtaniya ya rubuta tarihinsa na farko a arewacin Serengeti a cikin 1913. Gidan shakatawa na kasa ya kasance a cikin 1951, yana samun babban farin jini bayan aikin farko na Bernhard Grzymak. da dansa Michael a cikin 1950s. Tare suka fitar da fim ɗin da littafin The Serengeti Will Not Die, wani shiri na farko game da kiyaye yanayi. A matsayin alamar namun daji, wurin shakatawa na Serengeti yana da matsayi na musamman a cikin ayyukan marubuta Ernest Hemingway da Peter Matthiessen, da kuma masu shirya fina-finai Hugo van Lawitzk da Alan Root.
A matsayin wani ɓangare na samar da wurin shakatawa da kuma kiyaye namun daji, an ƙaura da Maasai zuwa tsaunukan Ngorongoro, wanda har yanzu batu ne mai cike da cece-kuce. An yi imanin cewa mafi girman yawan zakuna a Afirka shine Serengeti, wanda aka kiyasta cewa zakuna 3000 a duk wurin shakatawa. Baya ga "manyan Afirka biyar", za ku iya saduwa. Akwai yuwuwar gamuwa da nau'ikan da ke cikin hatsari kamar.
Yana zaune a cikin kogin Grumeti (kuma a kusa da shi). Daga cikin bushes na arewacin Serengeti suna zaune. National Park yayi game da 500 jinsunan tsuntsaye, daga cikinsu -.