Safari & Company - Safari Adventures Custom Designed

Days 1,2,3 + 4/5

Massed on the plains are the last great herds of buffalo in East Africa, up to 1000 head. Rivers groan with hippopotamus and crocodile. Almost everywhere you look, there's something grazing, bellowing, fighting, mating, hunting. Days on the hoof in Katavi can be wild beyond belief.
In this mega-beast land, all animals need a really good place to hole up, and for a decade, Man's retreat has been Chada Katavi, hidden on a shady spit of acacias and tamarinds on the edge of the Chada grasslands.

The camp has evolved into a rather civilised campaign HQ. Come dinnertime, the mess is nothing short of splendid, silverware gleaming and glasses shining in the lamplight. 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, the bathrooms bush-deluxe. And the thoroughly good white wine sitting on your porch table is perfectly chilled. Happily indulged, watching the elephants head out to water as dusk falls, you feel like one of the last great pioneers, binoculars in your hand, Africa filling your head.

A minimum of 3 nights is required at Chada Katavi - 4 nights would be even better, you won't be disappointed - this is pure Africa.

Trip Cost

Please contact us for a price on a stay at this camp; as it is usually combined with a other camps, special rates may apply