Student Travel to Selous Game Reserve

by Jesse Tattersall
(Australia)

Selous Game Reserve by Jesse

While we were in Dar es Salam we organized a trip into Selous Game Reserve.

There are lots of National Parks in Africa but not so many Game Reserves.

The difference is that when the populations get too high they go through a culling process which is to allow people to hunt them on a restricted limit.

We left at about 7am from the hotel and drove (we had a driver and a land rover) to the camp, stopping for lunch, and arrived around 5pm. We then unpacked our stuff and started cooking because we were self catering (it was raining heavily).

The food we cooked tasted great compared to the bought stuff.

We were camping in big canvas tents that had 3 beds in each and lots of moving space. There were even good bathroom facilities!!

Even though the Reserve was about 10min drive away the animals were still under a protection law because the Reserve didn't have fences.

We drove into the reserve the next day and we saw turtles swimming in puddles on the road (from the rain), impalas trotting along the side of the road and giraffe spread though the whole place.

We went across to the lakes. They were almost completely covered in birds, full of crocodiles and even hippopotamus, which tried to scare us off at one stage. Hýppos are dangerous and kill more people than any other animal ýn Afrýca. When they start coming out of their mud to chase you, then you get out of there FAST!!

We drove around for a while trying to find the lions which were found when our driver used some of his tracking skills to spot us a pride of 11 lions to look at for lunch.

It's very interesting to eat lunch while watching the Selous mane-less lions, less then 3 meters away, through the car window.

Even though there are supposed to be 5,500 elephants in the reserve we couldn't find any in the park and only found a group outside the park when we had given up hope. Unfortunately the camera battery had run out!!!

Because it had rained the day before, when we got back to camp there were swarms of insects covering the lights so thickly that you would suffocate if you stood under them.

The next day we went on a boat trip through a lake and came back to the campsite to pack up our stuff and head home.

Overall I think that Selous is a good reserve that isn't full of tourists.

Going before the rainy season was a good thing to do on our part because although the land looked dead we could see the animals, instead of the vegetation being so thick and lush that the animals were hidden.





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