About Nyerere National Park

Nyerere National park which was earlier known as the Selous Game reserve is Africa’s largest wildlife sanctuary.The name of the Park has been given in the honour of the founder of the Nation, the Late Mwalimu Julius KambarageNyerere.

The Park was here established in year 2019 and covers an area of over 30,000 square kilometres. With its largest wilderness area in Africa, Nyerere National park has relatively undisturbed ecological and biological processes, including diverse range of wildlife with significant predator and prey relationship.

Nyerere National Park Location

Located 230km and 300km from Tanzania’s commercial city of Dar es Salaam and is a five-six hour drive.Visitors can easily enter the park through Matemere gate, through Morogoro using the Matembwe Gate, which is close to Kisaki, a small town with various amenities.The Nyerere National Park Locationis close to many infrastructures and transport facilities and is becoming an important part of the Tanzania Safari Tours.

What To Do In Nyerere National Park

In this vast area you will be able to enjoy the widest diversity of Nyerere National Park safari activities in the country, like boating safaris as well as standard game drives. Also walking safaris and legendary fly camping trips are some activities to enjoy here.Tourists visiting this park can also observe big herds of elephants looking cautiously at the tourists and vehicles with great care.

NyerereNational Park Safari

You can see wild dogs, herds of antelopes, elephants, lions and impalas which kept their distance from our vehicle in the park. Nyerere National Park’s panoramic plains are decorated with golden grass, savannah forests, riverine marshes and lakes.

The River Rufiji, longest river in Tanzania, cuts through the park with its brownish waters flowing into the Indian Ocean. River Rufiji adds more romance to the park and is definitely looked forward to asTanzania Safari Toursfor honeymoon vacations. Rufiji River is the most crocodile- infested inland waterway in Tanzania. Big herds of buffaloes, elephants, Thomson gazelles, and giraffes are found grazing all in one place.

Wildlife of Nyerere National Park

Other than elephants, the park has the biggest concentration of hippos and buffaloes than any other wildlife park in Africa, according to the park wardens.

The park has different lakes such as Manze, Siwandu, Mzizimia, and Tagalala.

In northeast the great Ruaha and Rufiji River create a vast inland delta. A maze of seasonal channels flanked by grassy plains, dunes, steep banks and borassus palm forests, Hippos, crocodiles and Carmine bee-eaters are common.

Nyerere National Park Accommodation

Nyerere National Park Accommodation facilities include Serena Mivumo River Lodge, Selous Serena Camp, Mbuyu Safari Camp, BehoBeho Camp, Stiegler’s Gorge Camp, Rufiji River Camp and Sand Rivers.

The sheer volume of game in the NyerereNational Park is just outstanding! You must add this place into your list of Tanzania Safari tours destinations to enjoy the adventure and activities that the park provides.