Selous Game Reserve Africa's largest protected area

The Selous — now partly gazetted as Nyerere National Park — is part of the largest protected wildlife area in Africa covering approximately 50,000 km². Unlike the northern parks, the Selous offers safari activities unavailable elsewhere: boat safaris on the Rufiji River, fly-camping on the open floodplains, and multi-day walking safaris guided by armed rangers through genuine wilderness. The Rufiji River delta is an ecosystem unto itself — hippos, crocodiles, and extraordinary birdlife concentrated along its channels and oxbow lakes. African wild dog and sable antelope are Selous specialties.