Tsavo
Tsavo National Park
About Tsavo
Tsavo National Park is on of the oldest national park in kenya. The park entails Tsavo West National Park and Tsavo East National Park and are dived by Mombasa Railway line/ Mombasa Road. The park has been christened as the “Theatre of the Wild”. The Tsavo River flows west to east through the national park. The sight of dust-red elephant wallowing, rolling and spraying each other with the midnight blue waters of palm-shaded Galana River is one of the sight to behold. This, along with the 300- kilometre long Yatta Plateau, the longest lava flow in the world, make for an adventure unlike any other. The park is famous for the man eaters lions. The Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of man-eating male lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya, which were responsible for the deaths of many construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway. The Park is home to most of the larger mammals, vast herds of dust –red elephant, Rhino, buffalo, lion, leopard, pods of hippo, crocodile, waterbucks, Lesser Kudu, Gerenuk and Hirola and a prolific birdlife. The prolific bird life features 500 recorded species. The park borders local communities (Taita, Kamba, Maaasai) that offers unique traditional setups worth every tourist’s attention.