Tsavo East & West
National Parks
 At
just over 20,000 sq km, Tsavo is the largest national
park in Kenya, and for administrative purposes it has
been split into Tsavo West National Park, with an area
of 8,500 sq km, and Tsavo East National Park, which covers
11,000 sq km.
The northern
area of Tsavo west, west of the Nairobi to Mombasa, is
the most developed and has some scenery. Tsavo East is
much less visited and consists of vast rolling plains
with scrubby vegetation.
When driving
around the park, all tracks junctions have a number cairn
which make navigation fairly simple. Don't attempt this
park without 4WD if you intend to get off the main routes.
You certainly
can get to Kilanguni Lodeg and Ngulia Lodge on the main
service road from Mtito Andei in a 2WD but you'll get
into srife and possibly get helplessy stuck on the minor
tracks.
Tsavo East
Major Attractions
- Large herds of elephants
- Tsavo/Athi rivers confluence - when
the two rivers join they form the Galana river
- Aruba Dam which attracts lots of
animals built in 1952
In Tsavo West
National Park the focus here is the watering holes by
the Kilanguni and Ngulia lodges. The one at Kilanguni
is the better of the two and attracts huge varieties of
animals and birds, particularly during the dry season
when water may be scarce elsewhere.
The Mzima
Springs are not far from Kilanguni Lodge and the pools
here are favourite haunts of both hippos and crocodiles.
The much vaunted underwater viewing chambers are designed
to give you a view of the hippos submarine activities,
but the hippos have retreated to the far end of the pool.
There is however, lots of fish to be observed.
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