Katavi is as dramatic as anywhere you'll ever see, and this is what we try to reflect. Life as an adventure, the world as a living, breathing thing: Man as a detail.

Katavi National Park remains one of the greatest wildlife experiences of Africa. Miles from anywhere, it has an almost mythical status and, it’s thought, a greater density of mammals than any other Tanzanian reserve. Rivers groan with hippopotamus and crocodiles, and massed on the plains are great herds of buffalo and elephant.

Chada is the original Katavi camp. A place of phenomenal diversity of big African game, it is also far enough off the beaten track as to be almost off the map.  That's why we love it.

From our little hideaway on the edge of the Chada Plains we venture out into this wild place, walking, driving and fly camping under the stars. With such an incredible abundance of wildlife in Katavi, famed for its huge pods of hippos and cave building crocodiles there is so much to witness and marvel at. 

Chada Katavi operates as a seasonal camp and is only open from June - mid November. It is best accessed using our Nomad Tanzania shared charter flight from Arusha, which only operates on Mondays and Thursdays and continues on to Mahale National Park, and Greystoke Mahale. It can also be linked with the Southern parks of Tanzania such as Selous and Ruaha using Safari Airlink flights which again only operate on Mondays and Thursdays. 

From Chada Katavi we offer game drives, walking safaris and fly camping. 

Impressive big herds of buffalo and elephant, very healthy lion and leopard populations and particualry famous for hippos and crocodiles which aestivate in caves dug out of the river bank in the dry season.