Chada Safari Camp. You must look carefully from the air to spot camp; your eyes are immediately drawn to such wide open spaces. That’s the promise of Katavi: total absorption into the natural world and the place virtually to yourself.
Chada Katavi is much the same camp as when it began – designed to be a stylishly simple bushcamp with everything you need and nothing you do. It is small and intimate, with just six East African safari tents. Each is spacious and comfortable, with wide-open fronts giving panoramic views of the plain and animal life constantly coming and going. You often don’t have to leave your tent veranda to see games of all kinds. Elephants are frequent visitors, attracted to the same shady fruit trees as our guests and vast herds of buffalo graze on the flood plain in front of camp.
Katavi National Park is known for its fantastic game, with vast herds of buffalo roaming the plain and elephants, lions, leopards, crocodiles and hippos. The park comes into its own between June and October when the camp operates. With water sources becoming increasingly complex to find, hippos crowd in their hundreds into the last water holes, and crocodiles dig big caves into river banks to aestivate through the hot season. Katavi is the only place you can see such phenomena. Chada Katavi is a camp that aims to get you to feel Africa. Explore on walking safaris, game drives in open 4WD vehicles, night drives, or perhaps head out into the bush for a night fly camping under the stars. With our expert guides, you can see the best of this final frontier and eldorado of safaris.
