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SOUTHERN CIRCUIT
PARKS
Mikumi
/ Selous / Ruaha
/ Odzungwa
The Selous, occupying an enormous land area of 55000sq.km., is
the largest Game Reserve in Africa.The reserve is one of Africas
greatest wilderness, where the forest and bush are untamed and
the animals unmolested by man. The Rufiji river system which flows
through the reserve., flooding it during the rain season, further
limits human trespass into this animal kingdom which boasts of
over a million wild animals including some of the biggest population
of Elephants in the world.
Other
species commonly seen are Lions, Wild dogs, Buffaloes, Bushbucks,
Impalas, Warthogs, Leopards, Hartebeest, Rhinos, Sable Antelopes,
Reddbuck, Watebucks, Giraffe, Eland, Baboons, Zebra, Greater Kudu
and the counterless Hippos and Crocodiles which flock the Rufiji
River (the greatest in East Africa)
Walking Safaris accompanied by an armed ranger can be organised
together with game drives and boat trips. The Selous is inaccessible
during the rainy season i.e from March to May due to floods and
the best time to visit the reserve is from JUNE TO OCTOBER.
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