Katavi National Park
$ On Request
Highlights
- Great for First Time Adventurers.
- Be a Part of Heritage Route.
- Make Memories For Life Time.
Katavi National Park is a Tanzanian National Park created in 1974 and is located in Katavi Region, Tanzania. It’s a very remote park that is less visited than other Tanzanian National parks. The park is 4,471 square kilometers in the area, which makes it the third largest national park in Tanzania. The park encompasses the Katuma river and the seasonal Lake Katavi and Lake Chada flood plains. The wildlife features include cape buffaloes, hippos, zebras, wildebeests, giraffes, elephants, crocodiles, cheetahs, wild dogs, hyenas, leopards and the lions.
How to access the park
Getting to the park for visitors will likely be arranged by the hosting camp, with one of the available charter flight services being the Mbali Mbali shared charter. All the flights will require landing on a dirt airstrip; the Ikuu airstrip has got minimal services, its three-hour flight from Katavi to Dar es Salaam and two hours’ flight to Mwanza via a small bush compatible light aircraft. A flight to Arusha is 3 hours distant and operates on limited service usually only twice a week on Moday’s and Thursday s. Access to Katayi via ground transportation; the most direct route to Dar es salaam as per google Maps is 1250km and needs 16+ hours.
The park can be accessed through charter flights from Dar or Arusha. By road a tough but spectacular day’s drive from Mbeya or in the dry season only from Kigoma. Its also possible to reach Mpanda by rail from Dar via Tabora and then catch public transport to sit alike, where the game drives can be arranged.
Attractions
Katavi’s hippos offer most singular wildlife spectacle. Towards the end of the dry season, up to 200 individuals might flop together in any riverine pool of depth. More hippos gather in one place to swim. You also meet many crocodiles and elephants.
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