Southern Parks
Nyerere National Park (formerly part of Selous)
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The Nyerere National Park - formerly part of the Selous Game Reserve - is enormous, wild and remote. And it has great wildlife - big game, wild dogs (aka Cape hunting dogs), sable, roan, greater and lesser kudu, raptors, ostrich, hippos, crocodiles etc. But the main point is that this wildlife can be seen in such a variety of interesting habitats within this one fabulous place. Most of the accessible areas have numerous informal tracks which makes it far easier to drive reasonable close to the animals and pleasingly there are no signs of this having any negative impact.
It is easy to see why the Selous was declared a protected area way back in 1896, part of which is now Nyerere NP.
Getting around
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Much of the publicity surrounding the Selous hammers on about its vast area, but this is something of a red herring in touristic terms. True, this vast reserve does attract a mere fraction of the tourist arrivals associated with the northern safari circuit. And accommodation is indeed limited to a dozen-or-so low-key camps that espouse an eco-friendly philosophy and thatch-and-canvas aesthetic, and whose combined bed capacity amounts to a few hundred clients.
Yet a quick glace at a map will reveal that these tourist facilities are all compressed within a relatively small public sector to the north of the Rufiji, a reserve-within-a-reserve that accounts for less than 5% of the Selous’s total surface area (with the other 95% carved into private hunting concessions).