safari in Katavi National Par

4 days—Explore Katavi National Park with professional guide

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Safari summary

Visit Katavi National Park will give you a rare experience of game viewing. The Park offers wildlife in abundance and it has one of Tanzania’s greatest concentrations of buffalo, elephants and hippopotamus. The main focus for game viewing within the park is the Katuma River and associated floodplains such as the seasonal Lakes Katavi and Chada where most animals congregate.

About this tour

	Tour type	Custom, tailor-made, private
	Main focus	Game drives
	Activity level	Easy activity
	Best months	January, February, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
	Countries	Tanzania
	Parks	Katavi

Fine details

Safari highlights

Photography safari—with professional guide

What’s included?

Accommodation
Airport transfers
All drinks
Meals
Park fees
Private vehicle and driver

What’s not included?

Alcoholic beverages
Internal flights
International flights
Laundry
Premium alcoholic beverages
Tips and gratuities

Itinerary

Day 1: Kigoma to Katavi National

Katavi

Meet at the airport or hotel and drive from kigoma at 07:00hr to katavi National Park. It takes 5 hrs drive to arrive at the park. We will have lunch and then after a visitor will be taken for evening/ night games drives and spend a night within the park at Katavi Tanapa Bandas for dinner and overnight.

Katavi Tanapa Bandas

Day 2: Katavi National Park

Katavi

After breakfast, spend the whole day in the park doing game drives which cover extensive grassland savanna plains, woodland, marshlands, rough hills, lakes, and rivers when combined with neighbouring game reserves of Rukwa, Luafi, and Lukwati form a great eco-system. Meals and overnight at Katavi Tanapa Bandas In dry months from July to October, hundreds of hippos crowd into the remaining waterholes and rivers while crocodiles sun themselves on the banks.

Katavi Tanapa Bandas

Day 3: Katavi National Park

Katavi

08:h00 Breakfast. 08:30 game drive within the park, visiting places of cultural and historical interest in katavi including stone and Iron Age sites and sacred sites such as the Katabi tree where the wabende spirit katabi live. Back to the camp have a hot lunch, spend the night within the park at Katavi Tanapa Bandas for dinner and overnight

Katavi Tanapa Bandas