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Chada Katavi is situated in the core of Katavi National Park, in western Tanzania. It's said to be one of the wildest places on earth. Filling the floor of the Rukwa Valley - a minor fault of the western rift - Katavi National Park spans over a million acres, and due to its remoteness is one of the least visited parks in Tanzania. Across these plains run the last great herds of buffalo in east Africa. Katavi belongs to the beasts of Africa. As if they were created here, and the primeval soup still runs through its veins. Almost everywhere you look there's something grazing, bellowing, fighting, mating, hunting. Days on the hoof in Katavi can be wild beyond belief.

Chada Katavi is hidden on a shady spit of acacias and tamarinds on the edge of the Chada plain. Come dinnertime, the mess is nothing short of splendid, silverware gleaming and glasses shining in the lamplight. Days on the hoof in Katavi can be wild beyond belief, and Chada Katavi is the perfect place to return to after a day of safari adventure. Steaming hot showers wait, and the thoroughly good white wine on your porch table is perfectly chilled.

Rooms

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 and the bathrooms bush deluxe.