Day 1: Nairobi/Tsavo West
0730 Hours: Depart from Nairobi city and proceed to the Tsavo West National park via the Nairobi-Mombasa road. You will enter the park at Mtito Gate and start your game-drive en-route to your Lodge.
Lunch will be served at the lodge and some rest time followed by an extensive game-drive later in the afternoon.
You will visit the Ngulia Rhino Sanctuary – a 70 square Kilometer fenced area where Tsavo’s growing population of endangered black rhino are inching their way back from the chasm of extinction that was forced upon them by rampant poaching in the 1960’s.
You will search for elephant, giraffe, buffalo, antelope, lion and other game on your game-drive. Dinner and overnight at lodge.
Day 2: Tsavo West National Park-Tsavo East National Park
This day after breakfast you will enjoy game-drive at the Tsavo West with a visit to the Mzima springs. The Springs are fed daily by 250 million liters of water gushing from the Chyulu Hills provide an oasis of green, an underwater hippo viewing chamber, two nature trails and some unique picnic spots. The molten lava that forms the Shetani Lava Flow spewed from the earth just some years ago and its fiery fury was thought by the local people to be the work of the devil, hence its name which means devil in Swahili. Proceed to Tsavo East National Park arriving in time for lunch.
The park is famous for the ‘Man-eaters’. In 1898, as many as 135 railway workers were attacked and killed by man-eating lions. The pair of male, maneless lions that, unusually, hunted humans rather than livestock, evaded traps and capture for many months. The man-eaters were eventually shot by Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson, but the legend lives on.
A variety of animals can be seen in the park such as lions, leopard, cheetah, zebras, giraffes, serval, antelopes, kongoni, lesser kudu, oryx, klipspringer, impala, stripped hyena, ostriches, gazelles, buffalos, elephants and many more. A variety of migratory and native birds are seen. Dinner and overnight at Camp.
Day 3: TSAVO EAST-NAIROBI
Breakfast at the lodge. Depart for Nairobi arriving late afternoon. Lunch enroute (own cost). On arrival drop of at your hotel/residence.