Few people can say they have been to Katavi, an expanse of over 4,000 km2, located in the north of the Rukwa Rift Basin and watered by the Katuma River, Lake Chada and the seasonal Lake Katavi. A park that receives only very few visitors each year due to it being far from international airports. The abundance of animals in the park is remarkable: cheetahs, leopards, lions, buffalo, elephants, zebras, wildebeests, giraffes, crocodiles, hippos and the African wild dog, an endangered animal that finds a hiding place to protect itself in this park.

From there, we head a little further north toward the Mahale Mountains, to trek in search of one of the biggest populations of chimpanzees on the continent, with around 1,000 members. As well as these close relatives of ours, we will have the chance to spot the red colobus, the Angola colobus, and the red-tailed and blue monkey. The spectacle continues when we come upon Lake Tanganyika, the longest lake in the world and the second deepest. And on the other side of the lake, a unique view of the majestic Congo, “oyebi lolenge nini nalingaka mpe namemyaka yo” (you know as well as I do how much I love and respect you)