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50-65 years of age
Review about Botswana by Debbie W.
Hands down, my favorite place in Africa. Remote, but easy travel between camps means little time wasted in transit. Amazing wildlife, bird life and scenic beauty.
20-35 years of age
Review about Namibia by Mike Wanliss
Namibia is an easy and friendly country to travel in with vast distances to cover and tons to see and experience.
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50-65 years of age
Review about The Africa Adventure Company by Debbie W.
Everything worked perfectly. They also booked us in the best rooms in each camp and matched us with excellent guides. We've since worked with them on a trip to Tanzania and Rwanda and had the same excellent experience.
20-35 years of age
Review about Chobe National Park by John Carthy
Great park - good range of wildlife attracted to the river. Excellent hotels in town, with lots of options for the independent traveller. By far the most accessible park in Botswana unless you are on an organised safari. When you've finished enjoying this great park, you can be at Victoria Falls in about an hour, via a really quick and easy border crossing into Zimbabwe.
Review about Lake Nakuru National Park by John Wilson
Lake Nakuru was my first safari; it left me stunned by its beauty and abundance of wildlife. I toured the park with a friend in our own vehicle. It was safe, easy and breathtaking.
Review about Kakamega Forest National Reserve by John Wilson
Kakamega Forest is an oasis of the original forest that once blaneketed Kenya. It has been beautifully preserved. The butterflies alone are worth the visit.
20-35 years of age
Review about Ruaha National Park by Allan Kaitila
Ruaha has big and natural beautiful animals seems to be close to Katavi but Katavi still the best.
20-35 years of age
Review about Serengeti National Park by Allan Kaitila
Serengeti is the best place to visit, but the animals are not attractive like the one I saw in Katavi
20-35 years of age
For natural big animals, Katavi National Park is the best
WILDLIFE
Compared to other Tanzanian National parks exclude Ruaha and Ugalla Game Reserve, Katavi has got very big and attractive animals, actually, when you see them, you'll feel the presence of nature to these animals and how wonderful they are. For example, when you look to an Elephant, it looks huge and giant compared to elephants from another National parks.
SCENERY
Katavi lies on Rukwa or Western rift valley basin, from around the edges of the park there is gentle slopes with heavy natural forest and at the center of the park its plain grass land like 10km square (Estimate) and at the middle there is a beautiful lake known as lake Katavi and Chada where you can sit and enjoy nice view and animals. Therefore the scenery is beautiful.
WEATHER
Katavi is experiencing two seasons, wet season which starts from October to April/May (Hot season) and dry season which starts from May to September. Depends to what events would you like to see, for example if you want to enjoy lots of Hippopotamus and lion, visit lake katavi and Chada during dry season and for nice birds, baboons, giraffe, elephants and buffalo, visit during wet (rain) season.
In short, weather is nice and I haven't heard any problem about weather.
ACCOMMODATION
Starting from Mpanda Town which is near Katavi (40km), there is hotels, lodging and guest houses all of these differ in status and cost.
Inside Katavi National park, there is Hotels, guesthouse, bandas (kind of small houses with one room self contained) and Camping sites.
FOOD
In Katavi there is variety of food, but also you still can take your own food provided that you don't feed to the animals like baboons and chimpanzee.
TRANSPORT
You can access to Katavi National Park by air, if you lodge a private flight, you can land at Mpanda Airport or direct to Katavi National park air strip or use public flight (eg Precission air) from Dar es salaam to Tabora and then catch train or bus to Mpanda from Tabora.
Using road, there is a main road connecting Mikumi, Ruaha and Katavi national parks via Mbeya, Sumbawanga to Katavi and Mpanda. This road at moment is gravel based though at moment there is construction of tarmac road from Mbeya to Katavi and Mpanda then to Kigoma. From Mbeya to Katavi, the road is good in all weather though in some places is a little bit terrible during wet season. From Kigoma to Mpanda, the road is accessible only during dry season untill when the construction of tarmac road is finish.
Alternatively you can catch train or bus from Tabora to Mpanda, or catch a bus from Sumbawanga to Katavi.
In short road transport is accessible and not bad but not reliable just like in other National parks until when the road construction will finish.
GUIDE
Tour and guidance in general is good because the administration is trying to attract more tourists to this place as it was not famous before compared to other National parks though it starts to emerge very quickly after many tourists discovered that Katavi has the best big and natural animals.
Therefore, to me, I recommend that if you want to enjoy for the best animals, go to Katavi National park, you'll feel it!
Review about Kenya by John Wilson
Kenya deserves to be explored and appreciated by the more adventurous traveler for its scenic beauty alone. While the wildlife is by-and-large confined to reserves, they are spectacular in their relative naturalness and abundance of flora and fauna.