In June of 2003 my daughter and I did a month-long safari in Tanzania. The first two-thirds was on the northern curcuit and then we flew to the Selous and spent a week. We stayed at the Rufiji River Camp and it was a good experience. The Selous is a very large park and hunting is still allowed in part of it. When we were there we saw very few tourists and the area seemed much "wilder" than the north. The animals were not nearly so used to people and it gave a different feeling than other areas of Africa I have visited. The
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Selous Game Reserve-Rufiji River Camp The Selous is a large game reserve in southern Tanzania. It had very few...
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Rufigi River Camp The camp is built along a bluff over-looking the river and has great views of...
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Bar and dining area A very peaceful setting for relaxing and enjoying the great meals.
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Bar and dining area We would have breafast and dinner here and lunch in the field. The...
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Our tent This is a permanent tented camp and the accomodations were nice, especially...
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Beds Clean, comfortable and with good netting, which we didn't need...
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Fancy bathroom After long-drop toilets and shower tents this was heavenly. The showers were...
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Native dugout canoe This is the kind of boat the natives used on the river.
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Our boats These were great. The covers protected from the sun and they were very stable...
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Vervet Monkeys There was a large troop that lived in the camp. You had to keep the tents...
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Vervet Monkey My daughter named this monkey "Kamikaze Kid" because he seemed...
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Rufiji River The boat rides were what made this camp so special. Our canoe trip down the...
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Rufiji River
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Rufiji River
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Rufiji River
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Goliath Heron The tallest of the heron family stands amid the debris that is left...
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Yellow-billed Storks and Pelicans Just a hint at the number and variety of birds we saw here. Most of my bird...
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Date Palm The fruit of this palm is eaten by monkeys and other animals and bird...
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Bird nesting site The birds (like bee-eaters and swallows) dig these holes in the river...
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Monitor Lizard Then the Monitor comes along and eats the eggs and/or chicks. Most of the...
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Crocodiles There were more crocs here than any other place I have been and they were...
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Croc Often we would see them swimming, or just floating, almost invisible in the...
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Crocs Welcoming us to the river.
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Big Croc This and the next two pictures are a sequence. We were in a 18 foot boat and...
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Big Croc (cont.)
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