Tsavo East National Park is Kenya’s largest National park covering an area of approximately 13,747 square Kilometers and is known for its wonderful diversity of wildlife.
Famous for the Tsavo lions, there are close to 700 in this ecosystem.
This action-packed day trip is a dawn to dusk experience. Prepare to spend at least 6 hours viewing spectacular wildlife and colorful landscapes.
Tsavo East National Park
Features and what is expected
Game viewing drives
Animals like Lion, elephant, cheetah, giraffe, buffalo, antelope, warthog, ostrich, Baboons, birds etc
-Herds red elephant wallowing, rolling or simply foraging with the red soil that’s where the red elephant name came from.
The beautiful man made Aruba dam located on the north bank of the seasonal Voi River, is visited by thousands of animals and is a great game viewing destination.
Mudanda Rock – this whale-backed rock towers above a natural dam, which acts as a draw to thousands of elephants.
Depart from the hotel early in the morning (5:00Am) and drive Tsavo East National Park.On arrival enter the park via Bachuma gate and begin your morning game drive enroute to Sentrim/Voi safari lodge Lodge for lunch. After lunch, continue with game drives at Tsavo East which is one of Kenya’s oldest and largest National Parks covering an area of12,000sq km. This vast park lies in low semi-arid country at the eastern edge of the inland plateau, north of the main Mombasa-Nairobi Road and railway. Much of the park is level, open country with scattered rocky ridges and outcrops.
Due to its size, the park is one of the world’s wildlife and biodiversity strongholds.The Yatta plateau, a long, flat topped lava ridge, runs along the western boundary of the park its about 290 km long and is one of the world’s longest lava flows beneath it.
There are scattered seasonal pools, swamps and dams but relatively few sources of permanent water. One of the great spectacles of the park is the Mudanda rock a 1 &½ km long outcrop it is a water catchment area and supplies a natural dam at its base.In the dry season, hundreds of elephants come to drink and bathe here.Attractions include large herds of elephants and other wildlife, popular legend of Tsavo “The man- eaters of Tsavo”, Aruba Dam built in 1952 across the Voi River attracting many animals and water birds. You will check in for lunch and relax a little bit then In the late afternoon via game drive you exit the park and return back to your hotel. Drop off at your beach hotel.
