Game-viewing from the water on the Rufiji — hippo, croc, elephant and birdlife from a different angle entirely.
On foot with an armed guide, reading tracks and getting close to the bush the northern parks don't allow.
One of the continent's most important populations of endangered African wild dog.
Lightly-visited country — solitude the north has lost.
Channels, lakes and sandbanks that concentrate game and define the park.
Nyerere is the visitor's park; the wider Selous Game Reserve it was carved from is the larger, wilder, more complicated whole. Most photographic safaris in the south are here, on and around the Rufiji — and the river, by boat, is the thing you came for.
In 2019 the Tanzanian government turned the northern photographic sector of the Selous Game Reserve into Nyerere National Park, named for the country's founding president — giving the area full national-park status and protection.
The wider Selous name survives in the reserve to the south. For a traveller, the practical line is simple: Nyerere is where the photographic camps and the boat-and-walking safaris are; the Selous reserve is the vast, wilder hinterland around it.
We've kept the boundary politics light. The traveller's version: Nyerere on the Rufiji is where you go, best in the dry, by boat and on foot.
Game and birds from the water — the south's signature, impossible up north.
On foot with an armed guide, close to the bush.
Following a pack of endangered African wild dog.
Our own Tanzania guides and arrangements — boat, walking and bush craft in remote country, not a handoff.
We send you in the dry-season window when the river concentrates game and the camps are open.
We pair Nyerere's boats and walking with the northern circuit, or with a Zanzibar finish.
An elegant lakeside camp in the photographic heart of the reserve, strong for boat safaris and wild dog.
A Nomad lodge on the Rufiji River — open, characterful, a byword for this corner of Tanzania.
Boat and walking safaris on the Rufiji make the perfect contrast to the northern circuit — we build the pairing.
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