Best Things to Do in Serengeti

• • Observing a hundred sparring hippos stirring the muddy waters of the Retima Hippo Pool.
  • Glimpsing tiny, speedy dik-diks—with their Bambi eyes—speeding away into the bush.
  • Watching lions lie in regal repose atop the simba kopje (lion rocks) or out on the limbs of trees.
  • Drinking tall, cold bottles of Stoney Tangawizi, East Africa’s answer to ginger ale.
  • Listening to the lodge kitchen staff expertly serenade guests with local songs.
  • Witnessing a lion kill, as a pride of hungry lionesses capture a young warthog.
  • Stopping to view a spotted hyena family, with the mother nursing her pups.
  • Gazing at the dark Masai giraffes as they graze and “neck.”
  • Catching sight of a black rhino charging through the tall grass.
  • Taking off from a dirt runway in a 12-passenger Cessna airplane.