Nyerere (Selous) Reviews – Page 4

Lyn Arnold –

US

Visited: June 2019 Reviewed: Aug 7, 2019

Email Lyn Arnold | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris

Fantastic Reserve: Full of Animals, Not Full of People

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5/5

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Selous Game Reserve is a real jewel, full of wildlife and birds and intriguing flora with the added bonus of very few visitors. I stayed at Asilia Africa's Roho Ya Selous and it could not have been better. As a solo traveler, I look for places which allow me to be on my own (for meals or individual safari vehicles) and Roho was very accommodating. I could do as I pleased.

Selous' geography, with its river, plains, and abundant flora was a completely different experience than the Serengeti. I saw many hippos, giraffes, lions, and baboons there, along with the always-charming impalas. You will see almost all the great predators (if luck is on your side!).

The Northern Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater are fantastic to see; but if you are looking for a safari that does not resemble a drive-through 'zoo', with countless other vehicles surrounding a beautiful animal, Selous is worth visiting.

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Martina Menicucci –

IT

Visited: November 2018 Reviewed: Nov 5, 2018

Email Martina Menicucci | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari

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VERY GOOD SAFARI!!
here you can really see the pristine savannah and wild animals.

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Beatrice Svanström –

TZ

Visited: July 2018 Reviewed: Aug 14, 2018

Email Beatrice Svanström | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari

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Everything was great, the staff was wonderful, lovely nature and we saw animals all the time!

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Jaume –

ES

Visited: July 2018 Reviewed: Aug 4, 2018

Email Jaume | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari

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Great safari in Selous, last July 2018. Three days/two nights. We saw all the animals expected, including lions, buffalo, hippos, and a elephant. The weather was great in july: no rain and a great temperature. Selous occupies an enormous territory, so is difficult to find others vehicules, except in the encounters with lions and elephants because they are more difficult to find. Selous is an area not overcrowded by tourism.

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Tor Arne Fallingen –

NO

Visited: April 2018 Reviewed: May 6, 2018

Email Tor Arne Fallingen | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari

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5/5

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The park displayed a lot of what I feel African nature is like, it has dense vegetation areas and sparse vegetarion areas. It has the common animals, but you may not get to see the more rare ones. As our guide said, Selous you might not see everything, but you get close to the animals you see. In Mikumi you drive in hills and mountains, you may see more, but need good spectacles to make out what animal it is. This is 2 reserves easily accessible from Dar es Salaam, its not Serengeti og NgoroNgoro, which I understand is something completely different in many ways. But when we visited, there were 1 other car in the park, we saw it at the gate going in, so we didnt drive in a Safari convoy, this I appreciate.

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Ciril –

CH

Visited: February 2018 Reviewed: Apr 15, 2018

Email Ciril | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris

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5/5

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Just beautiful!

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Andrey Lopatinskiy –

RU

Visited: March 2018 Reviewed: Mar 31, 2018

Email Andrey Lopatinskiy | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari

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Selious is big wild territory with wild roads, is more naturally, more real as I like.

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Simon Betterton –

AE

Visited: December 2017 Reviewed: Jan 11, 2018

Email Simon Betterton | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris

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Great birds and hippos on the Rufiji River, a highly entertaining and informative safari walk with Ndidi, and so many lovely animals in the Reserve. A great start to our trip, only surpassed by Mikumi.

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Michele –

OM

Visited: September 2017 Reviewed: Oct 24, 2017

Email Michele | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari

Amazing wildlife in a lush waterworld

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The Selous Game Reserve is a vast wilderness conservation area just South of Dar Es Salaam. The 30-minutes flights that leaves Dar for the park is managed by Coastal Aviation, one of the best airlines in the whole continent.
We stayed at Lake Manze lodge, managed by Essential Destinations and our stay was just perfect. The food was incredibly creative and never boring (especially considering the remoteness of the location), the management was extremely professional in making our stay memorable and keep us busy for the 2.5 days that we spent over there. The lodge organizes both jeep safaris as well as short but interesting walking safaris, fishing trips and, what is probably the most delightful experience of all, a boat safari on the lake at sunrise or sunset. Our guides were funny, professional, experienced and they too contributed in making our trip one to remember.

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Winfried –

KE

Visited: June 2017 Reviewed: Aug 20, 2017

Email Winfried | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris

3-Days safari

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amazing experience for a short trip. communication was good and our Driver/guider was friendly and very knowledgeable. we saw many animals lions, elephants, girraffes et-cetera. Our experience was good and plan to come back next year.

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