Activities
Due to this unique ecosystem the Selous Game Reserve was designated as a World Heritage site.
Covering approximately 50,000 square kilometres, the Selous is one of the largest protected areas in the world and also Africa’s oldest protected area. With its diverse habitat, the northern photographic tourism sector is one of the most beautiful and game-rich areas of this whole ecosytem. Three-quarters of the Selous consists of woodland of various types, short grassy plains and seasonally flooded pans. Impressive riverine forests and often impenetrable, dense thickets are important habitats of the Selous and it is within one of these many riverine forests that the new camp is located.
Over half of Tanzania’s elephants, approx. 60,000, live in the Selous ecosystem where they roam the miombo forests, savannahs and thickets with over 150,000 buffalo, 40,000 hippos, 1,500 wild dogs, 3,000 to 4,000 lions as well as several hundred thousand plains game.
Although the Selous is best known for its spectacular mammals - especially elephants bathing and criss-crossing the Rufiji River - it is equally celebrated for its abundant and varied bird life. Another Selous “speciality” are the many hippos and crocodiles. The most conspicuous bird life is around the constantly changing pattern of the sandbanks, oxbow lakes, lagoons and channels along the Rufiji River, where the Selous Wilderness Camp is located.
The river scenery around the new camp is made all the more spectacular by dense riparian forests dotted with groves of borassus palms with their majestically swaying fronds. The Selous is probably Africa’s least known and wildest protected area, rich in game and varied habitat. Here our guests experience game viewing away from the maddening crowds, off the beaten track of the more well-worn safari circuits and from three distinctively different perspectives – on foot, by boat, by vehicle. Selous Wilderness Camp offers half and full-day river safaris, game drives and walking safaris with the occasional surprise bush picnic.
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