Western Tanzania Safari, Katavi and Mahale. This park is truly wild with exceptional experiences and very few visitors. Katavi & Mahale are one of the rare places left in Africa today where you honestly feel that you could have slipped back a thousand years. Many safari enthusiasts would debate that this is the exemplary Tanzania safari park; we certainly believe it to be the country’s best kept secret. Think about Africa before any discovery of it. That is how you will feel once you get in the park of Western Tanzania.
Home to the largest herds of buffalo on the planet. Katavi National Park, an untouched wilderness paradise situated in the western area of Tanzania. Wild drama African safari toiler made this journey as designed for the people who want to enjoy remoteness and deep comfort African accommodation in the Jungle. Hippopotamus in their thousands cram dwindling pools and crocodiles dig riverbank caves. Buffalo and elephant fight for waterholes. Lions hyenas and other predators know this, plenty of birds and other wildlife watching here becomes even more outstanding. Enjoy remoteness beautiful landscapes and incredible wildlife encounters far away from the crowd. Enjoy activities like off road and night game drives activities not permitted in national parks like the Serengeti, fishing, walking and boating safari
Animals seem bigger and more bestial. As a human, for once, you don’t feel like you own the planet. It’s a thrilling experience. Survival here depends on fragile seasonal rivers, the Kapapathe the Kavu and the Katuma, and in the middle of the rivers, massive herds of buffalo and other herbivores quintessence for the rich grass of four great floodplains. The park boasts a wonderful array of habitats, which range from flood plains of thick reeds and dense waterways that teem with hippo and crocodile to miombo woodlands, open grasslands, forests and pristine seasonal lakes.
Game drives in Katavi offer a varied and rewarding experience. Furthermore, anticipate the excitement of the predators hunting their dinner as the game move back to the trees in the evenings. Drive along crocodile-infested rivers, through arid palm-studded sand bars, and skirt seasonal lakes, seeing quantities of game reminiscent of a bygone era.
Mahale Mountains National Park, an isolated mountain on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, is famous for one thing, chimpanzee. Due to extensive research over the last 40 years, the chimpanzee populations in Mahale are habituated. As a tourist you can just sit there and let them walk around you. A fantastic experience, literally time spent with our closest relative. The chimp populations in Mahale number a few hundred and in Gombe National Park further north, perhaps only 80 remain in this isolated park.
- Most remarkable hippo viewing in Africa
- A good park to visit in combination with neighboring Mahale Mountain national park, where the chimp tracking is good
- Truly remote and free atmosphere
- Abundantly of Elephant, lions, and buffalo
- Africa’s last remaining Chimpanzee
- Most interesting wildlife watching.
- Top choice in Western Tanzania
- Mahale National Park neighboring the largest population of eastern chimpanzees.
- Most intriguing wildlife watching.
- A bit challenging to get there.
- Need almost two day arrive and depart
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KATAVI NATIONAL PARK
Arrive in Mpanda from Dar es salaam or arusha by flight right away you will start your journey to Kafavi National Park. You will check in at the park and start the game drive right away. Hot lunch will be served in the park. Gsme drive till sunset.
You will be excited to go out for untamed wilderness. The park set in an extension of the Rift valley between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Rukwa in southwest Tanzania. Enjoy wildly and remote magnificent safari destination. Less tourist ventures this park than others in Tanzania giving chance to experience the magic of Africa at its most unspoiled.
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KATAVI NATIONAL PARK
Early morning game drive in Katavi National park. Elephants can be seen daily and the numbers of buffalo are phenomenal with heard upon heard of 1000 strong grazing the dried-out flood plains. Hippos and crocs numbering in the 1000s yet increasingly confined to shrinking pools and mud wallows with regular fights erupting amongst the hippo bulls. Large herds of topi also concentrate into the flood plains.
Apart from game drives you will also do walking safaris inside the park.
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KATAVI NATIONAL PARK - Game drives
The predators are here in force especially lion and spotted hyena. Male lions are characterized by very short manes but large powerful bodies. In the hinterland are huge expanses of acacia and broad-leaved woodlands (miombo) and it is here that roan and sable antelope are found as well as Lichtenstein’s hartebeest. You will have dinner and overnight at Ihama Lodge/Katavi Rest House
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KATAVI - MAHALE NATIONAL PARK
After breakfast drive to Mahale via Mwese. 162Km drive over the ridge of the rift valley before face Lake Tanganyika. Lake Tanganyika is the world’s longest lake (673 km) and is about one and half kilometers deep and contains about 16% of the world’s fresh water it is second only to lake Baikal in Russia in volume. It is the purest fresh water on the planet. The lake is home to hundreds of species of fish including bright colored fish known as cichlids. Hippo and crocodile are common across its full extent. You will arrive for hot lunch before breezes at the lake beach.
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MAHALE - Chimpanzee Experience
Early breakfast drive to Mahale Park for Chimpanzee trekking. You will be briefed how to behave and all hygiene issues before meeting the chimps. You will need also to wear mask all the time.
Chimp watching. To get to the only habituated group of chimps, the M group, one climbs up through the mountain forest on a network of simple cleared paths to get into touch with the chimps and when one does the experience is extraordinary to the point of being bizarre.
The chimpanzees go on with their lives- walking, sleeping, fighting politicking eating etc as if they are not there. They take virtually no notice of visitors this is perfect, because you never feel like you are intruding.
After spending the strictly controlled 1 hour with chimps, you return to your accommodation facility to wash off the sweat, have delicious lunch and spend the rest of the leisure; or perhaps one of the number of the activities.
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MAHALE - MPANDA
Breakfast followed by short break at the Lodge before driving back to Mpanda. We are expecting you to have lunch on the way. Dinner and overnight stay will be at Mpanda town.
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FLY BACK TO DAR ES SALAAM
An early morning breakfast, drive to Mpanda Airport. Fly back to Dar es Salaam. You may connect to Arusha then transferred to Hotel
FLIGHT departing Mpanda at 08:15AM – Arriving DAR at 10:50AM
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Western Tanzania Safari, Katavi and Mahale. This park is truly wild with exceptional experiences and very few visitors. Katavi & Mahale are one of the rare places left in Africa today where you honestly feel that you could have slipped back a thousand years. Many safari enthusiasts would debate that this is the exemplary Tanzania safari park; we certainly believe it to be the country’s best kept secret. Think about Africa before any discovery of it. That is how you will feel once you get in the park of Western Tanzania.
Home to the largest herds of buffalo on the planet. Katavi National Park, an untouched wilderness paradise situated in the western area of Tanzania. Wild drama African safari toiler made this journey as designed for the people who want to enjoy remoteness and deep comfort African accommodation in the Jungle. Hippopotamus in their thousands cram dwindling pools and crocodiles dig riverbank caves. Buffalo and elephant fight for waterholes. Lions hyenas and other predators know this, plenty of birds and other wildlife watching here becomes even more outstanding. Enjoy remoteness beautiful landscapes and incredible wildlife encounters far away from the crowd. Enjoy activities like off road and night game drives activities not permitted in national parks like the Serengeti, fishing, walking and boating safari
Animals seem bigger and more bestial. As a human, for once, you don’t feel like you own the planet. It’s a thrilling experience. Survival here depends on fragile seasonal rivers, the Kapapathe the Kavu and the Katuma, and in the middle of the rivers, massive herds of buffalo and other herbivores quintessence for the rich grass of four great floodplains. The park boasts a wonderful array of habitats, which range from flood plains of thick reeds and dense waterways that teem with hippo and crocodile to miombo woodlands, open grasslands, forests and pristine seasonal lakes.
Game drives in Katavi offer a varied and rewarding experience. Furthermore, anticipate the excitement of the predators hunting their dinner as the game move back to the trees in the evenings. Drive along crocodile-infested rivers, through arid palm-studded sand bars, and skirt seasonal lakes, seeing quantities of game reminiscent of a bygone era.
Mahale Mountains National Park, an isolated mountain on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, is famous for one thing, chimpanzee. Due to extensive research over the last 40 years, the chimpanzee populations in Mahale are habituated. As a tourist you can just sit there and let them walk around you. A fantastic experience, literally time spent with our closest relative. The chimp populations in Mahale number a few hundred and in Gombe National Park further north, perhaps only 80 remain in this isolated park.
- Most remarkable hippo viewing in Africa
- A good park to visit in combination with neighboring Mahale Mountain national park, where the chimp tracking is good
- Truly remote and free atmosphere
- Abundantly of Elephant, lions, and buffalo
- Africa’s last remaining Chimpanzee
- Most interesting wildlife watching.
- Top choice in Western Tanzania
- Mahale National Park neighboring the largest population of eastern chimpanzees.
- Most intriguing wildlife watching.
- A bit challenging to get there.
- Need almost two day arrive and depart
