EXPERIENCE 1 DAY SAFARI AT TSAVO EAST

Depart from your hotel at 0500 hrs and drive along the Mombasa - Nairobi road to the first gate of Tsavo east national park. Short stopover before entering Tsavo East National Park via Bachuma gate and embark on your first game viewing in search of Elephants, Man eaters of Tsavo National park, Buffalos, Cheetah, Giraffe, Antelopes etc. Visit the famous Aruba dam where lots of game can be found especially during the dry season,all in Tsavo East National park.

Later proceed to camp or lodge for lunch. After Lunch, leave for another game drive in this largest National Park in the country before your exit . Have a chance to see the BIG FIVE of Africa in this one-Day Tsavo east national park Trip . There are numerous numbers of small and big game and different bird species. Later drive out of the park and proceed back to Mombasa arriving late in the afternoon

Included:

• Transport
• Full board accommodation
• Park fees
• Game drives
• Rescue Insurance (AAR)

Not included:

• Tips
• Drinks in the lodge
• Things of personal use

Daily Departure, minimum 2 persons.

Tsavo West

The Tsavo West National Park is covered in volcanic cones, rocky outcrops and lava flows. The northern part of Tsavo West is the most developed in terms of lodges and infrastructure and has spectacular scenery with a rolling volcanic landscape carpeted in long grass and dense bush.

Tall vegetation makes game spotting here a little trickier than in some of the other parks. The Big Five can be found in the park along with a fine range of antelope species. The main attractions of the park are the two waterholes, built by the lodges to more or less guarantee that their guests will be treated to fabulous game viewing.

Places to visit include the Chaimu Crater and the Roaring Rocks viewpoint. These are located just southeast of Kilaguni Safari Lodge; they can be climbed in roughly 15 minutes and offer sensational views over the plains.

Tsavo East

Across the highway from Tsavo West is Tsavo East. Famous for its large numbers of elephant and spectacular herds of up to 1000 buffalo, Tsavo East has more open savannah than its western sibling.

The scrub-covered hills of the southern park have a very remote feel and the park, despite its great game, does not attract large numbers of tourists. The best game viewing is along the watercourses and at the Kanderi swamp, which is not far from the main Voi gate. Thirty kilometres from the gate is the Aruba Dam and lion are commonly spotted around here.

For a number of years only the southern third of the park was open to the public because of the danger posed by poachers, and visitors were likely to encounter carcasses of tuskless elephants. In the past the park was hard hit by poachers who slaughtered horrifying numbers of rhino, elephant and other species.

Long at the epicentre of a poaching war which decimated rhino numbers from approximately 8000 in 1970 to less than 50 two decades later, elephant numbers plummeted from 50,000 in the 1960s to 5,000 twenty years later.

Today, however, the corner has well and truly been turned and you can be treated to the sight of large herds of 50 or more elephants, which have instinctively retreated to the vicinity of the lodges where they are assured of protection.

Places of interest

There are some interesting geographical features in Tsavo, including the Lugard Falls (this is actually a misnomer as the 'falls' are in fact a series of rapids on the Galana River), and the Mzima Springs (the source of much of Mombasa's fresh water).

At Mzima you can walk down to a large pool, a favourite hang out for hippos and crocodiles. There is an underwater viewing chamber where you can observe thousands of primordial looking fish. Sadly, you are not going to spot crocodiles or hippos in the chamber