Located in Katavi region of Tanzania, Katavi national park is a great place to visit and interestingly the national park is great in rainy season. Bechause for most of the year Katavi national park stays dry. The reason is it receives lowest concentration of rain fall and the wettest month receives only 137mm rainfall while the dry months receive only 9mm rainfall.
The national park is great for the animals that are living in that area that are affected by flood during the rainy months. Usually they get shifted to the katavi area during the rainy season from the flooded area. So if you are planning for a safari trip to Tanzania during the rainy months giving a visit to Katavi National park is must.
While the national park is one of the driest areas of the country, it has highest numbers of hippos of the country too. The male hippo's aggressive fights are the most interesting scenes you can witness. It is hard to find a hippo without battle scars. Not only hippos, but also crocodile's concentrations are high too. During the dry season of the country travellers can spot 200 crocodiles sharing one cave at a time.
Apart from hippos and crocodiles, the country has massive herds of buffalo too along with zebra, hartebeest, eland, giraffe and defassa waterbuck, around 3000 elephants, and much more.
January
Short rainy season
February
Short rainy season
March
Short rainy season
April
Long rainy season
May
Long rainy season
June
Dry Season
July
Dry Season
August
Dry Season
September
Dry Season
October
Dry Season
November
Short rainy season
December
Short rainy season
Wild life Although it does not exhibit the widest variety of wildlife, yet it possesses some of the spectacular African wilds. Lions are very common here but the more remarkable sightings are buffalo herds that number in the thousands and the hippo, which are pushed into small pools as the river dries up. Pods of them share too small a place, and fights are a common sight.
Sceneries Home to the greatest scenic view , it has vast stretches of grasslands : Savannaha, the lush green forests: the lake, the river etc. As an inaccessible National Park , it is less visited , so the beauty remains still intact.
The best way to get to Katavi is by Safari Air Link , a flight from Arusha which flys to the western curicuit parks twice in a week Monday and Thursday. it takes four or five hours to reach here from Dar or Arusha.
Wild life Although it does not exhibit the widest variety of wildlife, yet it possesses some of the spectacular African wilds. Lions are very common here but the more remarkable sightings are buffalo herds that number in the thousands and the hippo, which are pushed into small pools as the river dries up. Pods of them share too small a place, and fights are a common sight.
Sceneries Home to the greatest scenic view , it has vast stretches of grasslands : Savannaha, the lush green forests: the lake, the river etc. As an inaccessible National Park , it is less visited , so the beauty remains still intact.
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The national park is the most easily accessible national park in the country. Like all other Northern Tanzania national parks, the park is also can be visited throughout the year. However,
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