The Selous Game Reserve, a massive 50,000 square kilometres (four times the size of the Serengeti and bigger than Belgium or Switzerland) is wilderness on a huge scale. Although it’s a seemingly infinite place, it has great subtlety. Wildlife encounters are intimate and dreamlike; animals appear and disappear into the bush, and the scenery is breath-taking.
This remote wilderness holds the continents largest populations of buffalo, elephant, hippo and crocodile as well as great numbers of lion, leopard, giraffe, roan antelope, giraffe, sable, eland and both greater and lesser kudu. It is also one of the last strongholds of the African hunting wild dog - the second most endangered carnivore on our planet.
Safari activities in the Selous Game Reserve include game drives and exciting motorized launch excursions on the giant Rufiji River. Tanzania’s Selous area is also ideal for walking safaris and fly camping.