Day 1: Dar es Salaam - Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania
Just 200 kilometers west of the city of Dar es Salaam, there is the great Selous Game Reserve which is the biggest national park in Africa. It is 4 times the size of the Serengeti; occupying over five percent of Tanzania’s area as well as bigger than Switzerland.
Fed by waters of River Rufiji, this reserve is habitat to more than one million large animals as well as home to more than half of the elephant population in Tanzania. The Selous possesses more than 2,100 plant species, 350 bird species, 60,000 elephants, about 1,300 of the 4,000 remaining uncommon wild dogs in the worlds, and 108,000 buffalos enabling its guests to view all of these uncommon animals within an un-spoilt wilderness. From Dar es Salaam, fly to the Selous or drive by car and enjoy a game drive on the way to Ngalawa Camp.
- Meals: Lunch and dinner
- Driving time could be up to 7.5 hours
Day 2: Explore Selous Game Reserve
Following the breakfast, you will have a selection of several activities: game drive, walking safari, or boat safari. There are huge numbers of elephant within the park. Roughly, seventy percent which is 60,000 of the total elephant population live within this reserve.
Other popular animals are the hippos about 40,000 around the river systems, decreased numbers of black rhinos, numerous buffalos - more than 160,000, wild dogs in addition to 5,000 lions.
Also, the animals living here are cheetahs, Nyasaland gnu, leopards, brindled gnu, wildebeest, hartebeest, giraffe, greater kudu, zebras, sable antelope, warthog, eland, waterbuck, reed buck, and the bushbuck.
You will find more than 350 types of birds such as the southern ground hornbill, African snipe, geese, bateleur eagle, kingfishers, crested lark, herons, green-headed oriole, and knob-billed duck. Reptiles like crocodiles as well as other snakes plus lizards can also be seen. Tonight you will sleep at Selous Ngalawa Camp.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Driving time could be up to 7.5 hours
- Sometimes the guide also performs and it is dressed as a bushman in an authentic African costume
Day 3: Selous Game Reserve - Dar es Salaam
You will have breakfast, following by a game drive, walking safari, or a boat safari. Later you will have lunch and afterward you will fly returning to Dar es Salaam.
- Meals: Breakfast
- Driving time could be up to 7.5 hours
