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Sukhpreet
IN
Visited:
April 2018
Reviewed: Jan 12, 2025
Email Sukhpreet | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Beautiful
Beautiful park, peaceful place, go and enjoy with nature
Narendra Kumar
IN
Visited:
June 2021
Reviewed: Feb 3, 2025
Email Narendra Kumar | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Awesome view
This huge park, which consists of a mixture of dry woodland and huge expanses of grassland (which are actually dry lake beds though they turn into wet lake beds in the wet season) in the remote west is one of the best kept wildlife secrets in Africa
Abdul Jabbar Soomro
PK
Visited:
April 2025
Reviewed: Apr 23, 2025
Email Abdul Jabbar Soomro | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
**"Untamed Beauty and Serenity: A Memorable Experience at Katavi National Park"**
Wild, remote, and breathtakingly beautiful escape.
Abdul Jabbar Soomro
PK
Visited:
April 2025
Reviewed: Apr 23, 2025
Email Abdul Jabbar Soomro | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
**"Untamed Beauty and Serenity: A Memorable Experience at Katavi National Park"**
Wild, remote, and breathtakingly beautiful escape.
peter the safari maniac
Visited:
February 2009
Reviewed: Apr 11, 2012
One word Remote! This is Tanzaias hardest to o to national park and yet offers the best number of wildlife. I did a 6 day journey with train road and frankly should have flown out. If you can fly in and out. Loads of animals you ll be freaked!stayed at chada camp but my friends Fox family owners of ruaha river lodge now have a camp here
Marion
GB
Visited:
September 2012
Reviewed: Nov 6, 2012
Email Marion | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Absolutely superb. Hardly anyone is there and you are completely at one with nature, it's peaceful and full of hundreds of animals!
Andre Gilden
NL
Visited:
October 2014
Reviewed: May 2, 2015
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Many buffalo in the park and lions which hunt on the buffalo. Nice marshes which provide water to the wildlife.
Selestinus Emanuel
TZ
Visited:
October 2014
Reviewed: Mar 24, 2016
Email Selestinus Emanuel | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Isolated, untrammelled and seldom visited park
Katavi is a true wilderness, providing the few intrepid souls who make it there with a thrilling taste of Africa as it must have been a century ago.
Tanzania's third largest national park, it lies in the remote southwest of the country, within a truncated arm of the Rift Valley that terminates in the shallow, brooding expanse of Lake Rukwa. Katavi’s most singular wildlife spectacle is provided by its hippos. Towards the end of the dry season, up to 200 individuals might flop together in any riverine pool of sufficient depth. And as more hippos gather in one place, so does male rivalry heat up – bloody territorial fights are an everyday occurrence, with the vanquished male forced to lurk hapless on the open plains until it gathers sufficient confidence to mount another challenge.
Andrew Steiger
Visited:
November 2013
Reviewed: Dec 28, 2013
an incredible number of hippos and up close
Katavi is a wonderful Place of the World, with many Animals.
We drive in the Park in the dry Time, the Natur is then not so green, but the Animals are then watch masse. We look on the Game Drive Lions in the starting phase on the hunting, directly Elephant on the Road and masses of other Animals. The most impressiv experience was the many Hippos, the Hippos urge in the last Water in the Park.
I would return in any case again to Katavi.
Justin
CA
Visited:
November 2014
Reviewed: Apr 28, 2015
Email Justin | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
This park is amazing!! Easily one of my favourite parks. If you think Ruaha has a bush vibe, this one trumps it. We had lions lying within feet of the car window, giraffes showing up at our door at the bandas, hundreds upon hundreds of hippos crammed into small mud pools. We saw lions taking down hippos, a beautiful leopard at close range etc. Katavi is as remote as it gets! We spent 8 hours waiting under a mango tree for a bus out of Sitalike heading towards Namanyere! This place is remote and rugged and I highly recommend it for a solid adventure.