Katavi National Park
Katavi is in the far west of Tanzania, about sixty miles east of Lake Tanganyika. It is a fifty minute flight from, and over four hundred miles and almost four hours from Arusha, thus undoubtedly the reason why it is visited by very few tourists. At present the park has no more than a handful of visitors each year.
Katavi national park is the third largest game sanctuary in Tanzania and boasts of large herds of buffalo and elephants and several hundred hippos among other game. Other resident animals include crocodiles, topi, giraffe, hartebeest, sable, roan, waterbuck and reedbuck, lion, hyena and leopard.
Katavi’s spectacular scenery is both diverse and untouched. Flood plains of thick reeds and dense waterways are home to a huge population of hippo and wide-ranging birdlife. In the woodlands to the west, forest canopies are a hideout for herds of buffalo and elephant.
There's little or no infrastructure in the park consequently offering you the chance to explore the unscathed wilderness, by foot or off-road by land rover, to discover the most secret parts of the park, without seeing another soul.
The dry months of July to October are the best months to visit the Park.