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Tanzania's largest park (the former Selous) — boat safaris on the Rufiji, walking among big game, and wild dogs, a short flight from Dar or Zanzibar.
Carved from the legendary Selous Game Reserve in 2019, Nyerere is the largest national park in Tanzania — roughly 30,000 km² of wilderness centred on the mighty Rufiji River, yet visited by a fraction of the Serengeti’s crowds. It’s the heart of the southern circuit and a completely different safari.
The Rufiji enables what the northern parks can’t: boat safaris drifting past hippo, crocodiles, and elephants at the waterline. Add genuine walking safaris and one of Africa’s most important wild-dog populations, and you have a wild, exclusive park reached by a 45-minute flight from Dar or Zanzibar.
A 45-minute flight from Dar or Zanzibar to the airstrip.
Big game across miombo woodland and along the lakes.
Drift past hippo, crocs, and drinking elephants.
Track big game with an armed ranger.
Our top southern-circuit pick for variety — boating, walking, and driving in one stay, with far fewer vehicles than the north. The trade-off is no migration mega-herds and a rainy-season closure (many camps shut March–May). For a wilder, more exclusive Tanzania, it's superb, especially paired with Zanzibar.
These are the destinations we most often pair with Nyerere National Park Safari, based on route flow, season, and how the wider itinerary fits together.
Tanzania's largest national park — boat safaris on the Rufiji River, walking among big game, and wild dog country, a short flight...
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Tanzania's second-largest park and home to roughly a tenth of the world's lions — baobab hills, the Great Ruaha River, and almost...
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Tanzania's most accessible big-game park — open Mkata floodplains often compared to the Serengeti, an easy drive from Dar es Salaam.
Plan This Stop →A walking park, not a driving one — ancient rainforest, thundering waterfalls and endemic primates found nowhere else on Earth.
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