Katavi National Park

Katavi is one of the finest yet remote parks of Tanzania. The Katavi National Park was established in 1974. It is located in the Katavi Region of Tanzania. The national park is truly remote. It welcomes around 3 thousand to 4 thousand visitors yearly out of 900,000 visitors coming to Tanzania.The Katavi National Park covers approximately 4,471 square kilometres area and is the 3rd largest national park of the country. The park is surrounded by the Katuma River, Lake Katavi, and Lake Chada floodplains.The national park is accessible through chartered flights. You can be catching a chartered flight from Dar esSaalam to Katavi.The Katavi National Park offers great diversity in its vegetation too. You can discover a long golden-grass field and varied woodland During Your Tanzania Safari Tours where the most amounts of games can be discovered.The highlight of the Katavi National Park is the decent amount of hippos and crocodiles playing in the drying muddy pools. The Katisunga plain of the national park is the best spot for viewing game.The national park offers to meet diverse wildlife. You can spot large herds of Cape Buffaloes, zebras, wildebeest, giraffes, and elephants along with the predators like cheetahs, wild dogs, hyenas, leopards, and lions, etc.

• There are a number of places of cultural and historical interest in Katavi. These include Stone and Iron Age sites and sacred sites such as the Katabi Tree, where the Wabende spirit, Katabi, lives.
• The main activity, of course, is game viewing, which can be done on both game drives and guided walking safaris.
• Located in the Rukwa Rift Basin, which forms part of the Central African Rift Valley, Katavi boasts steep highland cliffs and escarpments, floodplains, vast grasslands and seasonal lakes, interspersed with woodlands.
• No fences, no flush toilets or showers. It's living in the wild; cooking food over a fire and spending evenings chatting around the campfire, staring up at the breath-taking African night sky and listening to the nocturnal calls of wild animals.