Katavi tented camp lies within the boundaries of
Katavi National Park in south-western
Tanzania. The park is 40 miles south of Mpanda, and about 200 miles
northwest of Mbeya. The benefit of the remoteness is that, despite
offering magnificent game viewing and a landscape of superb physical
beauty, it has been barely visited, so it's completely unspoiled, and
totally undeveloped.
This luxury tented camp looks east across the Chada
plains, right in the heart of Katavi National Park, and is still the
only tourist accommodation in the park. This means that you get the
place - that is, more than three thousand square miles of National
Park - to yourself. Katavi is a consciously low-impact,
environmentally sensitive camp, with no plastic, no concrete, no
permanent structures. All accommodation is in large double tents for a
total of twelve people only, and is luxurious in an elegantly simple
way - feather pillows, classic campaign furniture, solar-powered
lighting. The bucket showers hang under trees in each tent's thatched
bathroom, where there's also traditional safari earth-dug loo.
Enjoy game drives, safari, walking, culture, photography, bird
watching.
On land, as the dry season progresses, the game concentrates around
the Chada plains, and lion and hyena move in to predate upon the
buffalo that create herds of up to 3000 strong. In the rivers, chaotic
pods of hippopotami compete for space with crocodiles as the waters
slowly recede. Large families of elephants dominate the landscape.
Most notably, these are wild animals, and very exciting to be around.
Katavi Luxury Tented Camp
