Arrival & transfer
Met on arrival and transferred to your first camp. Time to settle in, meet your guide, and run through the days ahead.
Overview
Remote western Tanzania at its wildest — chimpanzee trekking with trained trackers in Mahale, paired with Katavi's untouched wilderness.
Sitting a few metres from a wild chimpanzee troop in dense forest.
Mahale Mountains National Park combines chimpanzee trekking with the pristine shores of Lake Tanganyika in one of Africa's most remote and exclusive destinations. Accessible only by boat or small aircraft, Mahale offers swimming, snorkelling, and walking alongside its habituated chimp communities.
Explore Mahale Mountains National Park →Katavi National Park is Tanzania's most remote major park, offering one of Africa's most extraordinary dry-season spectacles: hundreds of hippopotami wallowing in shrinking mud pools while lions and crocodiles compete for space around them.
Explore Katavi National Park →The journey
Day by day
Met on arrival and transferred to your first camp. Time to settle in, meet your guide, and run through the days ahead.
Mahale Mountains National Park combines chimpanzee trekking with the pristine shores of Lake Tanganyika in one of Africa's most remote and exclusive destinations. Accessible only by boat or small aircraft, Mahale offers swimming, snorkelling, and walking alongside its habituated chimp communities.
What to expect in Mahale Mountains National Park →Katavi National Park is Tanzania's most remote major park, offering one of Africa's most extraordinary dry-season spectacles: hundreds of hippopotami wallowing in shrinking mud pools while lions and crocodiles compete for space around them.
What to expect in Katavi National Park →A final morning activity where timings allow, then transfer to the airport for your onward flight.
An outline, not a timetable. Daily order and camp choices are confirmed when we build your quote — and can be reshaped around your dates, pace and interests.
Averaged across every park on this route, from three years of rainfall and temperature. Strongest months: Jul, Aug, Jun, Sep.
The detail
Before you go
This safari is rated luxury. Game-viewing days are spent mostly in the vehicle, so ordinary mobility is enough — the tiring part is early starts and long, corrugated roads, not walking. Tell us about knees, backs or mobility needs and we will adjust the driving days and seat allocation rather than leave you to tough it out.
Every figure we publish is per person, and the range reflects season and camp choice rather than a bait price. Small groups usually pay more per head than large ones, because the vehicle and guide are shared across fewer people. We will show you exactly where your number lands before you commit to anything.
A 4x4 with a pop-up roof and a guaranteed window seat for every traveller — that is in the inclusions above and it is not negotiable, because a middle seat ruins a safari. If you are photographing seriously, ask us about a private vehicle: it costs more, but it means the car stops when you want it to.
Requirements change and depend on your route and country of origin, so we will not pretend to be your doctor. Yellow fever proof is commonly required when arriving from certain countries, and malaria prophylaxis is standard advice for these regions. Speak to a travel clinic well before departure — ideally six to eight weeks out.
Talk to us early. Camps hold space on deposit, and how much flexibility we have depends on how far out you are and which camps are involved. We will tell you plainly what is recoverable and what is not, rather than discovering it for you after the fact.
Every safari is tailor-made — tell us your dates and travellers and we'll refine it for you.
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