Selous River Camp
Mud-hut cottages, bandas and riverfront tents · Rufiji bank at Mloka, near Mtemere gate · The Slow Leopard
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Budget
Outside the gate
Owner/family-run
A small owner-run camp on the Rufiji at Mloka just outside the gate, where the rooms are hand-built mud cottages and bandas instead of safari tents. It costs a fraction of the in-park camps, and its position outside the boundary lets it trade through the long rains. Remember that park entry and activity fees are added here, which is the usual source of confusion when comparing against all-inclusive rates.
Why you'd pick it
- One of the cheapest riverfront beds near the gate
- Hand-built mud cottages rather than canvas
- Outside the boundary, so it can stay open in the rains
What's here
- Swimming pool
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Boat trips
- Guided walks
- Night drives
Read from Selous River Camp'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
From about $80 pppn. Roughly $80 to $150 full board depending on whether you take a tent, a banda or a cottage. Park entry, boat and walking fees are charged on top, unlike at the all-inclusive camps inside the park.
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.