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Selous
Game Reserve holidays
Selous Game Reserve is Africa’s
largest game reserve – four times the size of the Serengeti.
With a broad range of wildlife, including elephants, hippos, zebras,
giraffes, lions, leopards and crocodiles, over 350 species of bird,
2000 plant species, and a diverse and striking landscape, a Selous Game
Reserve holiday is paradise for any nature lover.
The Selous Game Reserve lies in an area of practically uninhabited
miombo woodland divided between southern Tanzania and northern
Mozambique. Bisected by the great Rufiji River, the Reserve is a vast
region of largely unexplored bush. There are a variety of different
habitats, including the wide meandering river interlaced with myriad
channels, swamps, terminalia woodland and magnificent grass plains. The
sheer diversity of the landscape - from hot volcanic springs, placid
lagoons and numerous river channels - makes the Selous a unique area in
which to observe a large array of African wildlife.
It's great for birders too: 350 bird species have also been recorded in
Selous.
With all this food-on-the-hoof it's not surprising that predators pack
themselves into the reserve. The Selous lions (of which there are 4
000) display unique daytime hunting behaviour.
An estimated 1 300 wild dog (the largest concentration in Africa) live
in Selous, competing against large numbers of cheetah, leopard and
spotted hyena.
As for the heavies, once home to the biggest concentration of elephant
on the continent (over 110 000), the 'Ivory Wars' of the late 70's and
early 80's had a devastating effect on the herds, reducing numbers to
an estimated 60 000 today.
The black rhino population was similarly laid waste, and today there
are perhaps 150 to 200 left out of a population of 3 000 in the early
70's.
In addition to game-drives in open 4x4 safari vehicles led by
professional rangers, guests may enjoy guided bush walks which allow
observation of the 2 000 species of plants, as well as game viewing
from intimate riverboats.
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Selous Game Reserve contains the world's largest concentrations of elephants and buffalo.
Combine game drive, boat tours and walking safaris.
The
waterways of the Rufiji River Delta attract elephant herds, and are
packed full of grunting hippopotami and yawning crocodile that lumber
into the water at the first sound of a boat.
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