The government has started to repair the Serengeti National Park’s arterial roads to enhance visitor experience and comfort in the world’s biggest natural game sanctuary and place of unparalleled safari memories.
The Head of Communication in the Tanzania National Parks Authority (TANPA), Ms Catherine Mbena, told The Arusha News that works have started on the 126 kilometre road from the Ndabaka Gate to Seronera, arguably the heart of the Park, which prides itself as “The Serengeti Shall Never die.”
“We have divided the works into three phases, which altogether are expected to be completed in six months,” said Ms Mbena.
The road through the Ndabaka Gate juts out of the Mwanza to Musoma motorway near Bunda is the shortest to the Serengeti rather than driving all the way from Arusha.
Tour guides had described the stretch as the Serengeti’s “Hell Run” that took more than four hours to negotiate and was responsible for disproportionate cases of vehicle breakdowns.
The last long rains flooded extensively most parts of the Serengeti as they also washed away a number of bridges. At least four of those bridges will also be rebuilt under the current project, estimated to cost billions of shillings.
