Experience Serengeti from above

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A perfect place to witness the abundance of animals. In Katavi, its just you an the wilderness - an untouched landscape. There are no humans for hundreds of miles.

The park's main features are the watery grassy plains to the north, palm-fringed Lake Chada in the south-east, and the Katuma River. Katavi boasts Tanzania's greatest concentration of both crocodile and hippopotamus. The hippo is the world's third largest land animal, spending its nights devouring up to 60kg of fodder before returning to its aquatic home.

Katavi immortalises a legendary hunter, Katabi whose sprits is believed to reside in a tamarind tree, ringed with offerings from locals begging his blessings for a successful hunt. Delicately bounding impala, beefy eland, black legged topi, zebra and herds of up to 1,600 buffalo wandering the flits across the acacia, the riverbanks, the swamps and palm groves while flotillas of pelican cruise the lakes, ensuring that Katavi's lions and leopards have no shortage of prey. Elephants graze in the marshlands up to sizeable waits in reeds.

Katavi is said to contain the largest herds of Buffaloes on Earth. About 400 species of birds have been recorded here.

May to October and mid-December to February are the best times, during the rainy season, March to mid May, it is not advisable to visit Katavi.

 

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