Deep in Western Tanzania, the Katavi National Park is untamed and extremely wild.
Arriving by light aircraft you’ll pass over the Katasunga Plains before landing.
Spread out before you are burnished yellow grasslands covered
with thousands of zebra, topi, buffalo and giraffe. Lions lie on the
fringes, watching and waiting, shaded by mahogany trees. With only two
tiny camps in a million acres, Katavi sees few visitors and you have an
immense wilderness all to yourself.
Wildlife of Katavi National Park
Katavi is a classic dry season reserve. From June to October
buffalo herds of up to 3,000 graze on the plains. Game drives offer
superb photographic opportunities, whilst walks beside sluggish rivers
are exciting. Large crocodiles lie in mudholes, marabou storks pick over
hippo carcasses and spotted hyena lope off into the distance. Elephants
drink from tiny water holes in mud-cracked pans, roan and sable
antelope hide in dense thickets, while vultures clean and dry their
wings in small streams. As the sun falls low in the sky, a visit to the
hippo pool, where 600 hippo live in dense formation and engage in fierce
territorial battles, provides a perfect place for a sundowner.
At night the smoke curls up from the fire and the sound of
cicadas becomes deafening. If you sit quietly you might see a
pennant-winged nightjar flit across the purple sky or hear a distant
owl.
Katavi is a magical park. We recommend you see it now before others discover it.
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