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3-Day Nyerere (Selous) Safari Tours
You’re in for a treat if you have 3 days to spend in Nyerere National Park (formerly Selous Game Reserve). This is a wonderful park for both wildlife and landscapes, and 3 days here will give you a real taste of what the Selous has to offer. Apart from its watery expanses and river frontage, the park is famous for its wildlife that includes lion, elephant, giraffe, hippo, crocodile and so much more. This is one park where you might even see lions hunting giraffes. The presence of the Rufiji River along the park’s boundary adds many different safari possibilities, and a boat trip out on the river is one of the best things you can do here.
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3-Day Private Nyerere NP Game Drive, Walking & Boat Tour
$1,054 pp (USD)
Tanzania: Private tour
Mid-range LodgeYou Visit: Dar Es Salaam (Start), Nyerere NP, Dar Es Salaam (End)
Tanz America Safaris
5.0/5 – 5 Reviews
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3-Day Selous Reserve, Nyerere Park Boat, Drive & Walking
$430 pp (USD)
Tanzania: Private tourBudgetTented Camp
You Visit: Dar Es Salaam (Start), Nyerere NP, Dar Es Salaam (End)
Selous Ngalawa Camp
4.8/5 – 64 Reviews
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3-Day Flying Zanzibar to Nyerere NP (Selous) + 2 Games
$930 to $950 pp (USD)
Tanzania: Private tour
Mid-range Tented CampYou Visit: Zanzibar (Start), Nyerere NP, Zanzibar Airport (End)
Daily Expeditions
5.0/5 – 48 Reviews
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3-Day Flight Zanzibar to Nyerere NP, 2 Game Drive & Boat
$1,050 pp (USD)
Tanzania: Private tour
Mid-range LodgeYou Visit: Zanzibar (Start), Nyerere NP, Zanzibar (End)
Uwanda Tours and Safaris
4.9/5 – 81 Reviews
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3-Day Safari in Nyerere National Park (Selous)
$1,102 pp (USD)
Tanzania: Private tour
Mid-range LodgeYou Visit: Zanzibar (Start), Nyerere NP, Zanzibar (End)
Greg Adventures
4.9/5 – 15 Reviews
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3-Day Nyerere National Park Mid-Range Tour
$1,450 pp (USD)
Tanzania: Private tour
Mid-range LodgeYou Visit: Dar Es Salaam (Start), Nyerere NP, Dar Es Salaam (End)
Kilimanjaro On Foot
4.7/5 – 6 Reviews
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Top Rated Operator
3-Day Nyerere NP (Selous GR) Boat and Walking Tour
$630 to $650 pp (USD)
Tanzania: Private tour
Mid-range Tented CampYou Visit: Dar Es Salaam (Start), Nyerere NP, Dar Es Salaam (End)
Smile With Us Tours In Africa
5.0/5 – 123 Reviews
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3-Day Fly - Zanzibar to Nyerere NP - Two Crazy Game
$898 to $925 pp (USD)
Tanzania: Private tour
Mid-range LodgeYou Visit: Zanzibar (Start), Nyerere NP, Zanzibar Airport (End)
Shammah Wonders Safari
5.0/5 – 74 Reviews
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3-Day Selous (Nyerere NP) Fly in, Fly out Private Safari
$880 pp (USD)
Tanzania: Private tourBudgetLodge
You Visit: Zanzibar (Start), Nyerere NP, Zanzibar Airport (End)
Nkollo Tours & Safaris
5.0/5 – 17 Reviews
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Top Rated Operator
3-Day Wildlife Safari in Selous Game Reserve
$535 pp (USD)
Tanzania: Shared tour (max 6 people per vehicle)
Mid-range Tented CampYou Visit: Dar Es Salaam (Start), Nyerere NP, Dar Es Salaam (End)
KAMar Safaris
4.8/5 – 199 Reviews
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3-Day Nyerere National Park Former Selous Game Reserve
$490 pp (USD)
Tanzania: Shared tour (max 6 people per vehicle)BudgetTented Camp
You Visit: Dar Es Salaam (Start), Nyerere NP, Dar Es Salaam (End)
Usambara Expeditions
4.5/5 – 48 Reviews
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3-Day / 2-Nights Selous Game Reserve Safari
$700 pp (USD)
Tanzania: Private tourBudgetLodge
You Visit: Zanzibar (Start), Rufiji River, Nyerere NP, Dar es Salaam (City), Zanzibar (End)
Raha Adventure Safaris Ltd
5.0/5 – 9 Reviews
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3-Day Selous Tour, Walking and Boat Family Safari
$650 pp (USD)
Tanzania: Private tour
Mid-range LodgeYou Visit: Dar Es Salaam (Start), Nyerere NP, Dar Es Salaam (End)
Happy Moments Tours
4.9/5 – 32 Reviews
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Top Rated Operator
3-Day Nyerere Wildlife Game Drive & Boat Safari
$600 to $650 pp (USD)
Tanzania: Private tourBudgetLodge
You Visit: Dar Es Salaam (Start), Nyerere NP, Dar Es Salaam (End)
Migration Venture Africa
4.9/5 – 244 Reviews
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3-Day Selous GR, Boat +Walking with Bushman Family Tour
$620 pp (USD)
Tanzania: Private tour
Mid-range LodgeYou Visit: Dar Es Salaam (Start), Nyerere NP, Dar Es Salaam (End)
Shanga Tours And Safaris
4.8/5 – 6 Reviews
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3-Day Dar Es Salaam, Selous - Nyerere NP, Zanzibar
$706 pp (USD)
Tanzania: Private tour
Mid-range Tented Bush CampYou Visit: Dar Es Salaam (Start), Nyerere NP, Zanzibar (End)
Daigle Tours Tanzania
4.8/5 – 35 Reviews
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3-Day Safari to Nyerere National Park Safari
$750 pp (USD)
Tanzania: Private tour
Mid-range LodgeYou Visit: Dar Es Salaam (Start), Nyerere NP, Dar Es Salaam (End)
Bujo Tours
5.0/5 – 46 Reviews
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3-Day Nyerere National Park - (Selous) Budget Safari
$480 pp (USD)
Tanzania: Shared tour (max 6 people per vehicle)BudgetLodge
You Visit: Dar Es Salaam (Start), Nyerere NP, Dar Es Salaam (End)
Mbassa Adventures
5.0/5 – 5 Reviews
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Top Rated Operator
3-Day Selous Game Reserve, Walking and Boat Safari
$490 pp (USD)
Tanzania: Shared tour (max 8 people per vehicle)BudgetTented Camp
You Visit: Dar Es Salaam (Start), Nyerere NP, Dar Es Salaam (End)
Going Green Safari Tours Company
4.9/5 – 100 Reviews
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3-Day Selous Game Reserve Safari
$500 pp (USD)
Tanzania: Private tourBudgetTented Camp
You Visit: Dar Es Salaam (Start), Nyerere NP, Dar Es Salaam (End)
Gombe Track Safaris & Tours
4.3/5 – 63 Reviews
5 Questions About 3-Day Nyerere Safaris

Answered by
Anthony Ham
Anthony has written more than 150 Lonely Planet guidebooks, including Kenya, Tanzania and East Africa. He writes for magazines and newspapers around the world. He is also the author of The Last Lions of Africa, which includes a section on Nyerere.
5 Questions About 3-Day Nyerere Safaris

What is the best way to get to Nyerere National Park?
“If you only have 3 days for your Selous tour, I strongly recommend that you travel here by plane. That’s partly because your 3 days on safari includes the day that you will be traveling to the park and another for traveling back. If you fly, you have a much better chance of maximizing the time you actually spend inside the park and looking for the animals that you’ve traveled so far to see. Flying is more expensive than driving, of course, but the views on your way in and out of the Selous are likely to be a real highlight of your tour. Coming by plane usually involves flying to the airstrip just outside the park’s eastern Mtemere Gate in a six- to 20-seater aircraft from Dar es Salaam, Kilimanjaro International Airport (in northern Tanzania) or an airstrip in one of the other Tanzanian parks. The other option is to travel by road, although it’s a half-day drive to Selous from Dar es Salaam. If you’re coming from Mikumi National Park, the time you spend on the road will be less; it’s a five- to six-hour drive from Mikumi to Nyerere.”
1Which activities are available on a 3-day safari in Nyerere?
“As in so many of Tanzania’s fantastic safari parks, the guided game drive is likely to be the centerpiece of your safari. With 1 full day and possibly 2 half days at your disposal while on tour, you can expect to enjoy around four such game drives. These involve early morning or late-afternoon excursions in an open-sided 4WD vehicle with a canvas roof and tiered seating. Your guide and driver will take you to the best wildlife areas and help you look for animals. What Nyerere has that no other Tanzanian parks can match is the Rufiji River, which wonderfully combines beautiful views (especially at sunset) with a different perspective on wildlife viewing. Look for hippos and crocs, as well as land-based mammals coming down to the water’s edge to drink.”
2What are the accommodation options on a 3-day Selous safari?
“Nyerere has lots of accommodation, both inside the park and just outside its eastern Mtemere Gate. Those accommodation choices outside the park are mostly in the forest along the banks of the Rufiji River and have outstanding sunset views. Many have a mix of rooms, safari tents, and simple campsites that have communal showers and toilets. Inside the park, accommodation mostly takes the form of tented camps (where you’ll sleep in a safari tent with en suite bathroom) and caters overwhelmingly towards mid-range and high-end safari price categories. There’s very little (if any) budget accommodation within the park. Most accommodation choices have a bar, restaurant, lounge area, possibly a garden and maybe even a pool. On a 3-day Nyerere safari, you will most likely have 2 nights’ accommodation in or around the park. On the third day, you’ll be leaving the park and will sleep elsewhere.”
3What is the best time of the year for a 3-day Nyerere safari?
“The best time to visit the Selous is from June to October. This is the Dry season, when you can expect the best weather conditions (clear skies and mild temperatures) and the park’s dirt tracks will be easier to drive without vehicles getting stuck or blocked from getting through. The best time of all is late in the Dry season (usually September and, even more, October) because as water sources start to dry out, animals are drawn to the pools, lakes and rivers that remain, thereby making them easier to locate. November and December can also be fine. The worst weather (with the highest chance of rain) will usually be in March and April. If you’re a birder, consider coming between November, when migratory species arrive in great numbers from Europe, southern Asia and North Africa, and April, when most of them leave and return to the north.”
4How much does a 3-day Nyerere safari cost?
“A 3-day Selous safari will start at US$150 to US$200 per person per day. Major costs (apart from your accommodation) are likely to include air transfers (which could cost US$300 return per person) and the daily park entrance fees (US$50/25 per adult/child per day). Check whether these are included in the quoted price when making your booking, or whether they are considered additional costs. Prices will, of course, vary greatly from one safari tour operator to the next. Prices also change depending on the accommodation you choose. A budget camping experience some distance from the park entrance will clearly cost considerably less than a five-star luxury tented camp well inside park boundaries. High-season prices run from June to October; traveling outside of these months can significantly reduce the cost of your safari. And it will also make a difference whether your 3 days on tour is spent on a private safari, where you will have your own guide, driver and vehicles, and pay for them all, or a group safari, where these costs and experiences are shared with other travelers.”
5Nyerere Reviews


Mary is an acclaimed travel writer and author of many Lonely Planet guidebooks, including South Africa, Tanzania, East Africa and Africa.
Boat safaris, wild dogs & wilderness
Nyerere National Park (formerly Selous) is near the top of my list of recommended safari destinations. It offers sublime riverine scenery, year-round greenery and a complete climate and topographical contrast to the Northern circuit. While...

Gemma authored several Lonely Planet guidebooks, including the guides to Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa.
My top tip for Tanzania
Nyerere National Park (Selous) is my favourite game area in Tanzania, and possibly the whole of Africa. The landscape, with its emerald-green swamplands, dead trees submerged in water and shaggy-topped palms, is ravishingly beautiful. You...
The large area of this park means that the wildlife can be a bit more spread-out and the animals can be a bit more timid of vehicles. But in my opinion that is a good thing and exactly as it should be. Another plus is that the scenery is...

We did not spot the big 5, but Al lot of great animals. When one of the guides spotted lions, it suddenly gets very crowded. The rest of the day you will hardly see any other drivers. We had a beautiful boat safari and two fantastic full...

The Selous Park is beautiful. And so many of our dibrtch memories from Tanzania. Afebxha was waiting for us by changing the number of employees in the contract. It was only after our intervention that she confessed to guilty and we...

Fantastic Reserve: Full of Animals, Not Full of People
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...