Nyerere National Park is the new national park established in 2019, named after the country’s first president. It is part of what is known as the Selous Game Reserve. Named officially in 1922 after an English explorer, Captain Frederick Courtney Selous, a legendary 19th-century naturalist, explorer, and hunter, the reserve was his final resting place when he died there in combat with the Germans during the First World War just below Sugar Mountain in the Beho Beho hills. A small plaque marks the grave. In 1982 it was officially declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco.

It is the largest National Park in Africa and covers an area of 30,893 km² (11,928 sq miles) offering an amazing introduction to unspoiled Africa. It is located in southern Tanzania and far from the madding crowds, it is one of our favorite wildlife viewing areas in Tanzania.

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 relationships. It is really a hidden gem! The Rufiji River, swamps and the lakes are the lifeblood of a park that hosts some wonderful game, including both east and southern African wildlife, both resident and migratory, the birds life here is also phenomenal with over 450 known species of birds, which make it a key to destination on a southern Tanzania safari. Big prides of lions, good number of leopards. The park is home to over 50% of the remaining endangered African wild dog, also it hosts good population of elephant, hippo, buffalo, giraffe, eland, kudu, sable antelope, wildebeest, zebra, baboon, colubus and vervet monkeys, and many more animals.