The theme is a bit misleading... By "people watching" I mean people watching the animals. If you have the chance, go out to a night safari. It's a little strange at start, but with time you start seeing things. You can see the glowing eyes of the nocturnal animals like hayenas, bush babies, dwarf antelopes and more. If you are really lucky, you might see a leopard, but they are exremelely hard to spot. The need to concentrate to spot the animals in the dark makes it a highly intense experience.
Updated Feb 15, 2003
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The theme is a bit misleading... By "people watching" I mean people watching the animals. If you have the chance, go out to a night safari. It's a little...
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Selous Game Reserve is not as famous as the reserves in the north of Tanzania. The result is it is not nearly as crowded. The good thing is, the animals are not used to people and act completely...
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Selous - Tanzania's Untouched Wilderness

The southern parks and reserves of Tanzania have until very recently been completely overlooked in preference of the big names of the north – Ngorongoro, Serengeti, Tarangire and Lake Manyara. However...
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Vast, Untamed and off the beaten track

I Love the Selous. I truly do. It's so different from all of the touist-trap northern national parks here in Tanzania. The Selous is just massive, it's 55,000 square kilometres of massive... and it's...
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Across Southern Safaris/ Tanzania

At over 50,000 square kilometers, this is the largest game reserve in Africa, representing over 5% of Tanzania's total land area. The most outstanding feature of this enormous generally flat landscape...
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