Tettled in Tanzania since 1967, Tanganyika Wildlife Safari controls more than half of the hunting in the Selous Game Reserve. Whether for hunting or photographic safari, the company has gained a worldwide reputation for the precision of its organisation, the high standard of its professional hunters, the quality of its trophies and its attention to detail in some of the most luxurious camps to be found in Africa. The company's founder, Gerard Pasanisi, has hunted in the Selous Game Reserve professionally for twenty eight years and so is more knowledgeable than most about the area and its animals. His love of the area has lead him to take a decisive lead in the fight against the poaching problem.

Declared a National Park in 1905, the Selous Game Reserve covers more than 50,000km² and is totally uninhabited by man. A unique and beautiful natural setting with every type of topography, the park is home to more than one million animals representing all the most important species to be found in Africa. The visitor to the Selous Game Reserve today sees Africa in the same state that enchanted famous names of the past such as Karen Blixen, Ernest Hemingway and Romain Gary. The hunting on 30,000m2 of the reserve (more than 2/3 of the whole area) is managed by Tanganyika Wildlife Safari.

Upon arrival, you will be met at Dar es Salaam international airport, where all formalities (customs, gun import and immigration) will be arranged for you.

Depending on your arrival time, you will be escorted either to a first class hotel in Dar es Salaam, or directly to your private charter plane for departure to one of two different camps. Kihurumira Camp has been designated the Holland & Holland camp and is deemed to be of a higher standard, both for hunting, services and facilities, than anywhere else in Tanzania. The game and the professional hunters here ensure that you have the best opportunities possible for an extremely successful hunt, particularly for elephant, buffalo, big black-maned lion, leopard and kudu. Due to the abundance of game and the massive area that is seldom reached by hunting parties, quotas for certain animals are generous and trophy fees are generally lower (especially for buffalo). Indeed, this is one of the few remaining areas in Africa where four of the 'Big Five' can be pursued from the same camp.

In the Selous reserve all camps must be non-permanent and so Kihurumira is constructed of top quality tents which are insect and fly proof under roofs constructed of local thatch. En-suite toilet and shower facilities are to the rear of each tent. The mess area, pictured above, is under a thatched roof and is furnished to a high standard.

Tanganyika Wildlife Safari also operates an area that extends to 22,000km2 to the north in Masailand and here the camps are also of high quality. Species such as gerenuk, oryx and lesser kudu can be hunted here. Where a range of species is required it is often recommended that a safari be split between Selous and Masailand.