Serengeti comes from the Maasai word "Siring" meaning "Endless Plain". Serengeti stretches for hundreds of kilometers of flat surface land. The ecosystem encompasses the following: Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area in the south east, Ikorongo, Grumeti and Maswa Game Reserves in the western parts, the Loliondo Game Control Area in the north east, and in the north by the famous Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya