Chada Katavi camp
Katavi National Park 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. This is the place for the wildlife connoisseur, and the traveler who thinks the African bush can offer up no more surprises.
Chada Katavi camp is situated in the core of Katavi National Park, in western Tanzania. It's said to be one of the wildest places on earth. Filing the floor of the Rukwa Valley - a minor fault of the western rift - Katavi National Park spans over a million acres, and due to its remoteness is one of the least visited parks in Tanzania. Across these plains run the last great herds of buffalo in east Africa.
Hidden in the trees that flank it are just six guest tents with fine wooden furniture, woven rugs and beds spread with crisp white Egyptian cottons. The tents are large, romantic and airy and the bathrooms bush deluxe.
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.