Katavi National Park | Amazing Wildlife Safari at Chada Katavi Camp | Tanzania 2022 | 4K-Video

Lion pride with cubs, lions mating, big herds of elephants, giraffes, hippos in big numbers, crocodiles and plentiful birdlife. The Katavi National Park is a well-kept secret if you are looking for a remote and non-mainstream park that only reveals its beauty to the few visitors. The park spans a huge area between the lake Katavi and lake Chada. Several rivers are flowing through the park with the Ikuu river being the most prominent. The rivers and lakes are home to huge numbers of Hippos for which the park is famous. Crocodiles are omnipresent in the river as well as waterbirds such as goliath heron, hadada ibis, yellow-billed stork, hamerkop, egyptian goose and great white pelican. One day we were extremely lucky and spotted a rare black-crowned night heron resting on a tree. Impala, defassa waterbuck, bushbuck, plains zebra, masai giraffe and cape buffalo are the main herbivores of the park.

Katavi is famous for its hippo pools in which huge numbers of hippos are resting during the day. The concentration of hippos depend greatly on the water level of the lakes and rivers. We had around 50 hippos crammed in a small pool. Thankfully you can watch the scene without the smell.

One morning the bridge over the Ikuu river was blocked by mating lions. We had the unique chance to observe the couple for a long time. And we were even more lucky later when we found the five playful lion cubs of the pride in the evening.

Another highlight of the trip was a big herd of elephant walking on the road when we were heading to the Katisunga Plains in the west. We stopped the car and let them approach us peacefully and quitely. The entire herd passed our car at just a few meter distance. It was such a great experience to see these mighty animals up-close.

Welcome to our birding and wildlife safari to the Katavi National Park in Tanzania in July 2022. We stayed four nights at the wonderful Chada Katavi Camp and would like to thank the excellent staff and our amazing guide for this unforgettable safari.

For animal identification, please refer to the video subtitle or to the species list below.

With best regards,
Sandra and Markus

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List of species in order of appearance:
01:33 Impala with red-billed oxpecker
01:42 African elephant
01:52 Masai giraffe
02:10 Tanzanian red-billed hornbill
02:19 Little bee-eater
02:28 Lion
02:56 Greater blue-eared starling
03:23 Cape buffalo with cattle egret
03:32 Verreaux's eagle-owl
03:51 Masai giraffe with red-billed oxpecker
03:59 Northern white-crowned shrike
04:09 African fish eagle
04:14 Nile crocodile
04:18 Defassa waterbuck
04:55 Mating lions
05:11 Yellow-billed stork
06:07 Goliath heron
06:15 Nile crocodile
06:23 Yellow-billed stork fishing
06:51 African fish eagle
07:20 Black-crowned night heron
07:51 Fork-tailed drongo
08:15 White-browed coucal
09:11 Meyer's parrot
09:20 Brown-hooded kingfisher
09:28 Cape buffalo with red-billed oxpecker
09:37 Cape buffalo with yellow-billed oxpecker
09:45 Bushbuck with vervet monkeys
09:53 Lion pride
10:01 Female bushbuck with impala
10:14 Bush breakfast
10:22 Grey heron with nile crocodile
10:30 Male bushbuck
10:35 African marsh-harrier
10:44 Goliath heron
10:52 Hamerkop
11:00 Yellow-billed stork
11:08 Hadada ibis
11:17 Green wood-hoopoe
11:42 Hippopotamus
11:50 African jacana
12:32 Egyptian goose
13:30 Blacksmith lapwing
13:39 Nile crocodile with captured baby hippo and palm-nut vulture
13:55 Great white pelican with yellow-billed stork
14:53 Impala
15:24 African elephant
15:33 Bushbuck
15:57 Masai giraffe
16:28 Monitor lizard
17:53 Warthog
18:09 Hippopotamus
18:33 Hamerkop
19:48 African fish eagle
22:14 Helmeted guineafowl
22:24 Lion cubs
24:09 African elephant
24:19 Cattle egret
24:33 Hippopotamus
24:38 Saddle-billed stork
24:47 Nile crocodile
24:57 Bare-faced go-away-bird
25:07 Bushbuck with nile crocodile
25:17 White-browed coucal
25:26 Banded mongoose
26:30 White-headed vulture
26:39 Plains zebra
26:49 Southern African rock python
26:54 Red-necked spurfowl
27:08 Warthog
27:18 African elephant
27:58 Juvenile palm-nut vulture
28:27 Juvenile masai giraffe
28:36 Topi
29:05 Bateleur
29:50 Cape buffalo
29:58 Southern ground hornbill
30:22 Masai giraffe
30:37 Senegal coucal
30:52 Cattle egret
30:59 White-browed coucal
31:07 White-crowned lapwing
31:22 Lilac-breasted roller
31:38 African marsh-harrier

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Chapters in this video:
0:00 Arriving in Katavi National Park
4:38 Lions mating
9:02 Wildlife along the Ikuu River
14:34 Elephants at the Waterhole
22:04 Playful Lion Cubs
26:19 Elephant Herd on the Road
29:42 The Katisunga Plains

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Видео Katavi National Park | Amazing Wildlife Safari at Chada Katavi Camp | Tanzania 2022 | 4K-Video канала Sandra & Markus Trachsel