The Sand River Region is by far one of the most intriguing and remote areas of East Africa, and the Selous National Game Preserve is not like the other parks you may have visited. This place you are still allowed to walk the sandy soil to see the dung beetle up close or to have your morning tea under a baobab tree.
While you're here, remain watchful and quiet! The thickly growing trees and plants allow a herd of elephants to disappear in seconds and make giraffe difficult to see until you are nearly on top of them.
Caution is always the key because here poisonous green snakes flash into and out of sight before you know it and very nasty scorpions enjoy the shade of the rocks.
Hippos roam about freely at night (you can see their prints right next to those of the lion. Often frequented pathways used by the hippos are clearly laid out for everyone to use. Leopards roam the dark and wait out the days in trees. Lions dine on members of the large herds of Cape Buffalo next to the road.
And while you watch animals today, the history of the 20th Century whispers in your ears. Here, in the heavy underbrush of the thickly growing thorntrees, the last clash of the European Empires in Africa took place. Here the last battles between the British and German guerilla units were fought during Europe's so-called "Great War".
