The South Region

The southern parks include: Selous Game Reserve, Ruaha National Park, Saadani National Park, Mikumi and Udzungwa. The two most popular areas are now Selous and Ruaha – usually linked by a flight as distances between the two is quite large. Mikumi is a lovely park and the forests and mountains of Udzungwa are worthy of note. Saadani is an eclectic mix of bush and beach and rivals the now rather busy beaches of Zanzibar.

Mikumi National Park

Mikumi National Park is a protected area of outstanding natural beauty and high biodiversity. It is the closest National Park to Dar es Salaam, nestled between the Uluguru and the Rubeho mountains. As part of the Selous ecosystem, it benefits from a high game density and supports a wide range of large mammals including elephant, Read More

Saadani National Park

Saadani is where river meets bush and sea. It is an ecosystem that has fused together in a colourful clash found nowhere else on the east coast of Africa.  Saadani is located north of Dar es Salaam and is a very unique natural environment.  Whilst it does not hold the vast numbers of animals found in Read More

Udzungwa Mountain National Park

Udzungwa is a remnant of the eastern arc rainforest that once stretched along the eastern rift 165 million years ago.  At this time Madagascar separated from mainland Africa, so the forests there have many similarities to the Udzungwa rainforest. Six million years ago, the Udzungwa rainforest was also isolated from the West African rainforests so Read More

Selous Game Reserve

Selous Game Reserve is named after Frederick Courtney Selous, the famous 19th century hunter and explorer whose books were bestsellers in Victorian England. The Selous is the largest wildlife sanctuary on the African continent covering a staggering 54,600 square kilometres of southern Tanzania. It consists of vast tracts of archetypal east African wilderness containing perhaps Read More

Ruaha National Park

Ruaha National Park is Tanzania’s second largest park and one of its wildest. Only the area around the Great Ruaha River has been developed for tourism. Because of its remote location even this sees relatively few visitors, thus preserving a massive chunk of raw African wilderness in a totally unspoilt state. Activities centre on the river, which Read More