Luxury Safaris in Katavi National Park

Covering nearly 4,500 square kilometres along the rift escarpment, Katavi National Park is home to a rich variety of wildlife and offers some excellent game viewing for the truly adventurous.

Completely off Tanzania’s beaten track, Katavi is isolated and undiscovered by all but the most ardent safari goers.  The national park encompasses huge grassland plains, marshland, rugged hills, woodland, lakes and rivers which, when combined with the surrounding game reserves of Rukwa, Lukwati and Luafi, form a great ecosystem of some 25,000 square kilometres. What’s even more appealing is that there with only a couple of permanent camps and just a few hundred visitors a year, you’ll get it virtually to yourself.

Countless zebra, impala and topi which fill the plains, while there are also strong populations of giraffe, buffalo, elephant, hartebeest and waterbuck. Predators such as lion prides and hyena are easily found while cheetah, wild dog and leopard can also be spotted. During the dry season, hundreds of hippo crowd into the remaining waterholes and rivers, while crocodiles sun themselves on the banks.