Selous Game Reserve

This UNESCO World Heritage site is one of the largest fauna reserve in the world. Its undisturbed wildlife diversity, it is the home of typical savanna animals such as elephants, hippos and the rare African wild dogs and crocodiles which are found in larger number compared to any other African national park.

The Selous Game Reserve is one of Africa's biggest game reserves. Covering roughly 50,000 km², it represents about 5% of Tanzania's territory mass, however, to put it more into viewpoint, it is multiple times the extent of the Serengeti, and double the measure of the Kruger National Park in South Africa. The hold is a blend of shade timberlands, grass fields, marshes, wetlands and forests, and a progression of 5 interconnected lakes filled by the great Rufiji River, which wanders through the save. Stiegler's Gorge, where the Rufiji and the Great Ruaha River meet, is a staggering characteristic element, as it is 100m profound and 100m wide.

Enormous crowds of bison, rhino, wildebeest, zebra, giraffe, and impala meander the open fields. Hippos swim in the conduits of the Rufiji, and enormous crocodiles relax on the waterway banks. Elephants visit the swampy islands, and colobus monkeys swing through the trees of the forest. The reserve is additionally home to around 1,300 wild dogs (the highest in Africa and around 33% of the whole total populace), who seek nourishment with different predators, for example, lion, cheetah, leopard and spotted hyena. For birders, more than 350 different aviary fauna species have been recorded in Selous. The reserve is a World Heritage Site. However, in all respects shockingly, it is amazingly tranquil as far as guest numbers. This is chiefly because of the way that lone the northern segment of the hold is open to visitors, as the remainder of the reserve is offered over to scientific research and private hunting concessions.