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Katavi National Park Safari Trips & Tours

Go remote in this splendidly secluded park and find stylish lodges, immense landscapes and good game.

A stop in Katavi reveals an untouched expanse of vast golden floodplains, burbling rivers and fragrant fig and albida forests. This relatively unknown park deep in western Tanzania is a hotspot for mammal viewing and herds of buffalo, sometimes 3000 strong, attract many predators to the area. In the dry season, elephants search for tiny waterholes in the mud-cracked pans and enormous pods of hippo squeeze into the smallest of pools. Katavi is an alluring park, seductive in its solitude, and with only 4 small camps, the immense landscape is pretty much yours and yours alone.

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Katavi National Park Safari Trips & Tours

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Off-the-beaten-track in southern Tanzania

Off-the-beaten-track in southern Tanzania

11 nights from $11K per person

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Explore Tanzania’s wild west

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