Selous Kinga Lodge
Tented rooms and lodge, with a pool · Rufiji concession a few kilometres from Mtemere gate · Independent
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Mid-range
Outside the gate
Locally owned
An independent lodge on its own stretch of the Rufiji a few kilometres outside Mtemere gate, mixing tented rooms with a main lodge building and a pool. Sitting outside the boundary means you pay conservation fees only on the days you actually drive in. Published prices for it are unreliable, so insist on a written quote.
Why you'd pick it
- Its own riverside concession just outside the boundary
- Pool, which few properties at this level have
- Minutes from Mtemere gate
What's here
- Swimming pool
- Wi-Fi
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Boat trips
- Guided walks
- Birding
- Community visits
Read from Selous Kinga Lodge's own website in July 2026. Anything not listed we could not confirm, which is not the same as it being absent.
What the park charges on top
The rate above buys you a bed. Nyerere National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entry$70 plus 18% VAT, charged per 24 hours.
- $82.6per person, per day
- Vehicle$40 plus VAT, foreign registered.
- $47.2per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $637.2 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
The full fee schedule for Nyerere National ParkRates
On request. The lodge publishes no rate card. Secondary listings of $550 to $600 a night look high for this class of property. Ask for a written quote that states what is included.
What the rate covers is not confirmed. We do not know yet whether meals, drinks and activities are included, so read this as the bed only.
Every figure on this page is in US dollars.
Indicative 2026 rates gathered in July 2026 from operators' own rate cards, and from the best third-party sources where an operator publishes nothing at all. No published rate means 'on request'. Always confirm with the property. Two things shift the real comparison in this park. First, park fees are extra almost everywhere: a camp inside the boundary carries the $82.60 conservation fee plus a $59.00 to $70.80 concession fee per adult per night, both including VAT, and most in-park camps bundle these into an all-inclusive rate while the camps outside the gate charge entry, boat and walking fees separately on the days you go in. Second, ignore any camp still advertising night game drives: they are not permitted inside the national park since the 2019 regazettement. Names you may still find in older guides but that we do not list: Azura Selous, which appears permanently closed, plus Selous Kulinda, Ol Moran, Jimbiza Lodge, Selous Great Water, Selous Mbuyu, Selous Mapumziko, The Retreat Selous and Amara Selous, none of which we could verify as currently trading.