Katavi belongs to the beasts of Africa; it is the only human presence, for miles and miles. There are no other camps, no mini buses and no tourists, in a million acres of National Park. The main camp at Katavi sits on the wide floodplains of Chada, a Mecca for game. This is a place for the wildlife enthusiast with concentrated quantities of Game. Here travellers can walk, stalk and bush whack in Land Rovers, without restrictions.

Nights at Katavi can be spent out in fly camps - bedrolls slung under borassus palms - or in the relative civilization of the main camp, with canvas tents, campaign furniture and long lazy dinners. Game is literally everywhere, including in the camp itself. There are huge herds of elephant, pods of yawning hippo, thousands of buffalo, hyena, crocodile, leopard and lion also rarities such as puku, sable and roan antelope.