About the destination
Tanzania's hidden west. Burigi-Chato National Park (gazetted in 2019) is the country's fourth-largest park — and one of its emptiest. Add the Haya kingdoms around Bukoba and you have a region almost no tourists ever reach.
Why visit
If you've already done the Serengeti and want something genuinely off-grid: real wilderness without another safari vehicle in sight, plus living culture you can taste, see and hear.
Wildlife & landscape
- Elephant, giraffe, eland & roan antelope
- Hippo and crocodile in Lake Burigi
- 350+ bird species
- Sitatunga in the swamps
Things to do here
Burigi-Chato Game Drive
Full-day in Tanzania's emptiest big park — often no other vehicles.
Haya Cultural Day
Banana-beer brewing, traditional dance, the Kamachumu Museum.
Kagera River
Viewpoint and birding along the Tanzania–Uganda border river.
Top highlights
Burigi-Chato National Park
Haya cultural villages
Kagera River
Zero crowds
