Katavi National Park is one of the most pristine and rugged nature reserves in Tanzania. The enormous grass landscape with thousands of buffalo and antelopes is a true highlight. In the beautiful forests and around the lakes you find many hippos, crocodiles and birds.
The characteristics features of Katavi National Park is the Katisunga Plain, which is 425 KM2 in size, a vast grassy plain in the heart of the park. The small rivers and swampy lakes such as Katavi and Chada support huge populations of hippos and crocodiles.
When the floodplains dry up and wildlife gathers at the remaining water, the park comes to life. The hippos then gather by the hundreds for a bath in a muddy pool. Territory battles are the order of the day. A unique spectacle.
Katavi National Park is also the habitat of some of the largest remaining buffalo herds in Africa and its therefore not unusual to see over a thousand of these cattle at the same time.
Katavi National Park is also the habitat of the largest remaining buffalo herds in Africa and it is therefore not unusual to see more than a thousand of these cattle at the same time.
And all those huge numbers of elephants, buffalo, giraffes, Zebras, impalas and roe deer are an easy prey for the numerous lions and spotted hyena.
