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User Reviews of Katavi National Park (26 Reviews)

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4.6154 / 5 4.6 /5
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Male avatar icon Sukhpreet India flag IN       Visited: April 2018 Reviewed: Jan 12, 2025

Email Sukhpreet  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Beautiful

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Beautiful park, peaceful place, go and enjoy with nature

Male avatar icon Narendra Kumar India flag IN       Visited: June 2021 Reviewed: Feb 3, 2025

Email Narendra Kumar  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Awesome view

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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

Male avatar icon Abdul Jabbar Soomro Pakistan flag 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"**

5 / 5 5 /5

Wild, remote, and breathtakingly beautiful escape.

Male avatar icon Abdul Jabbar Soomro Pakistan flag 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"**

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Wild, remote, and breathtakingly beautiful escape.

Avatar icon peter the safari maniac Visited: February 2009 Reviewed: Apr 11, 2012

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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

Female avatar icon Marion United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: September 2012 Reviewed: Nov 6, 2012

Email Marion  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

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Absolutely superb. Hardly anyone is there and you are completely at one with nature, it's peaceful and full of hundreds of animals!

Male avatar icon Andre Gilden Netherlands flag NL       Visited: October 2014 Reviewed: May 2, 2015

50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

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Many buffalo in the park and lions which hunt on the buffalo. Nice marshes which provide water to the wildlife.

Male avatar icon Selestinus Emanuel Tanzania flag 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

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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.

Avatar icon Andrew Steiger Visited: November 2013 Reviewed: Dec 28, 2013

an incredible number of hippos and up close

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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.

Male avatar icon Justin Canada flag CA       Visited: November 2014 Reviewed: Apr 28, 2015

Email Justin  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

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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.