KATAVI NATIONAL PARK

Katavi national park is an extensive open plain alternate with broad-leafed woodlands (Miombo), flat-topped acacia and wide swamps and lakes. The area contains different animals including Roan and Sable antelope and Lichtenstein’s hartebeest. Elephant can be seen daily and the numbers of buffalo are phenomenal with herd upon herd of 1000 strong grazing the dried-out flood plains. Hippo and crocs numbering in thousands get increasingly confined to shrinking pools and mud wallows, with regular fights erupting amongst the hippo bulls. Large herds of topi also concentrate into the flood plains. This Park also give you a chance to enjoy the predators in force, especially lion and spotted hyena.

Activities

• Game driving is the main activity, but guided walking safaris with an overnight or two in a light weight fly camp are also popular. Near Lake Katavi, visit the tamarind tree inhabited by the spirit of the legendary hunter Katabi (for whom the park is named) – Offerings are still left here by locals seeking the spirit’s blessing.