Tanzania Safari Travel Guide
Tanzania
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Safari
For most of us the word ‘Safari’ is synonymous with the name Serengeti. This enormous national park covers 8,700 square miles and is to be found in the north of Tanzania, on the border with Kenya. If you’re in search of the ‘Big Five’ then definitely head for the Serengeti’s grassy plains and Acacia forests. Among the lions, rhinos, buffalos, elephants and leopards are giraffes, hyenas, gazelles, some primates and approximately one million wildebeest!
In south eastern Tanzania is the gigantic Selous game reserve. It covers six per cent of Tanzania’s total land mass – a whopping 21,081 square miles! Selous is considered to be one of the world’s last, truly pristine wildernesses. A game reserve, by definition, is for the wildlife not the humans. So, here the roads are rough or non-existent and the living basic, but if you’re an intrepid type with a sense of adventure then travel to this reserve. The journey is always worth it; zebra, hippopotami, crocodiles, elephants, birds and the world’s largest population of African hunting dogs are found here in greater numbers than anywhere else.
