Selous Game Reserve – Africa's Largest Wildlife Sanctuary

The Selous Game Reserve is one of Africa’s most extraordinary and awe-inspiring protected areas — a vast, wild, and breathtakingly beautiful wilderness of riverine forest, open grassland, miombo woodland, and the magnificent Rufiji River system that covers an enormous 54,600 square kilometres of pristine southern Tanzania. As the largest game reserve in Africa and one of the largest protected areas in the world, the Selous is a place of genuinely epic scale and extraordinary ecological importance.

Designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982 in recognition of its outstanding universal value and exceptional biodiversity, the Selous has long been regarded by wildlife experts and experienced safari travelers as one of Africa’s greatest and most authentic wilderness destinations — offering a raw, remote, and deeply immersive safari experience that simply cannot be found anywhere else on the continent.
In 2019, the northern section of the Selous Game Reserve was officially gazetted as

Nyerere National Park — named in honor of Tanzania’s founding father Julius Kambarage Nyerere — opening this extraordinary wilderness to photographic tourism for the first time. The southern section retains its game reserve status and continues to be managed for sustainable wildlife utilization.