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Kenya national park Tour-Tsavo East

Kenya national park tour and safari starts with the largest park-Tsavo Kenya national park. Measuring over 40% of the total land under Kenyan parks, the park is so vast that game drives can take 3 days to cover it all. Kenya Tsavo National park is also close to the Kenya coast and is usually combined with Kenya beach excursions. The Kenya Tsavo East National park is divided in the middle by river Galana. The green riverine vegetation forms a snaking effect across the usually dry lands.

In Kenya Tsavo east national park tour-features

The picturesque Yatta plateau runs over 65 km inside the park and is a great opportunity for Kenya photographic safaris. The Muganda rock is especially beautiful for Kenyan national park photographic tours. A series of high energy falls called the Luggard Falls cuts deep curving crevices with thundering water in river Galana Kenya.

In Kenya Tsavo east National Park tour Wildlife

There are many Kenyan wildlife in Kenya Tsavo East national park including the Kudu, gerenuk, waterbuck, zebra, elephant, crocodiles, lion, leopard, hartebeest among others. The Elephants of Kenya Tsavo East national park appears red in colour owing to the red soil that cakes in the sun after their wallowing mud baths in river Galana.

Tsavo east national park tour- birds

With over 500 bird species, the Kenya Tsavo east national park displays such elegance in birds like the buzzards, ostrich, migratory kestrels and the magnificent secretary bird.

Tsavo East national park tour accommodation

Accommodation in Kenya Tsavo east National park is in lodges and tented camps: there is one lodge with 104 beds, four tented camps (total 92 beds), two campsites (total 36 beds) and one self-help Banda site with 12 beds and nine campsites.
Kenya National Park Tour -Tsavo West

The man Eaters of Tsavo Kenya tour

One of the greatest episodes in Kenya history is the building of the Kenya- Uganda railway line in 1900. One of the episodes that give this era a distinction is when the construction was halted for months on end owing to predation of the railway line coolies (workers) by a group of man eating lions. These lions were from then called "the man eaters of Tsavo"

Lions of Tsavo West Kenya tour

This drama is epitomized in a recent movie called the "ghost and the darkness" These were the lions of Tsavo West National park. Currently at display at the Nairobi Kenya railway museum is one of the carriage wagon that one of the travelers was pulled out and killed by the same lions. It is also in Kenya?s Tsavo West National park that the Germans occupying Tanzania and the British colonizers of Kenya clashed during the World War 1.

Wildlife and Features of Kenya Tsavo West

The Kenya National park has river forests with cool under canopies. It also has plains, lakes, mountains and wooded grassland. Kenya Tsavo west National park wildlife include the lion, zebras, buffalo giraffe, rhino, cheetah, crocodile, elephant, zebra, leopard and many other plains game.

Tsavo West Kenya Enchanted forests tour

The Kenyan National park is rich in beautiful habitats and is mostly green. It is heavily wooded in some sections as it benefits from seeping crystal waters from Chyulu hills, a volcanic range of mountains. The Kenyan National park is located next to the Nairobi Kenya- Mombasa road and within near proximity to both Nairobi and Mombasa.

Kenya Tsavo west national park tour-Mzima Springs

One of the biggest attractions in Kenya Tsavo West National park is the Kenya Mzima springs, a pool of crystal clear natural spring. The spring is fed by the waters from Kenya Chyulu hills filtered through kilometers of underground volcanic rock pores. The Kenya Mzima Springs water travels underground and is filtered only to re-emerge as clean and very cool waters in the springs.

Kenya national park tour-walking tours

In Kenya Tsavo West National park, there are resident hippos and crocodiles that enjoy the cool fresh swim of the springs. An underground observation tank is provided and one is able to see and photograph hippos swimming or walking under water. The Kenya Tsavo West National park is perfect for those who enjoy walks in the park and a hike on one of the volcanic pebble filled hills-the Chaimu hill.

National park tour-Tsavo west accommodation

Kenya Tsavo west National park accommodation includes lodges, camps and camping sites- lodges inside the park (total 276 beds), four tented lodges (total 154 beds), three public campsites and one special campsite and three self-help Banda sites (total 72 beds).

National Park Tour -Amboseli Kenya

Kenya National park tour of Amboseli in Kenya. Amboseli in Masai?s Maa language means a place of plenty of water. Although Amboseli Kenya national park dries up and becomes very dusty, thanks to the volcanic dust, the park has year round supply of water.

Kenya Amboseli national park tour- Ol Tukai Springs

The water filters from mt. Kilimanjaro snow melt and is filtered over hundreds of feet of volcanic rock pores, emerging at the base in a large spring called Ol Tukai. Ol Tukai springs are located in the middle of the park and it is where the famous elephants of Amboseli Kenya National park love most.

Kenya Amboseli national park tour-The elephants

The biggest attraction to Amboseli Kenya national park tour is the vast herds of elephant. The Amboseli Kenya national park male elephants have the largest tusks of all elephants in Kenya. Other wildlife to be found in Amboseli Kenya national park tour are leopard, lions, zebra, wildebeest, giraffe, impala, caracal and Serval.

Birds of Amboseli National park tour

There are also many birds in Amboseli Kenya national park including the kingfishers, pelicans, African fish eagle, bee-eaters and pygmy falcon and martial eagle.

Kenya Amboseli national park tour-Stampede mirages

Amboseli Kenya National Park has endemic dust from the volcanic ash spewed in the Pleistocene age. Another interesting feature is the simmering dry lake beds that give mirages of a stampede like horizon populations and which are punctuated by real herds of zebra and gnu.

Kenya Amboseli national park tour-Masai tours

Maasai around Amboseli Kenya national park have formed group ranches around the park and they benefit from tourists as a way of sustainable tourism development.

in Kenya Amboseli national park tour- Accommodation

Amboseli national park of Kenya is among the favoured destinations in Kenya. There are four lodges inside the park (total 602 beds) and the Ol Tukai self-help bandas and two campsites. There are a number of small tented lodges just outside the park (total 72 beds).

Robert is a tour expert from Kenya, degreed in tourism, has written extensively on Kenyan tourism and a director to Landmark safaris Ltd. Tailor your own...http://www.landmarksafaris.com/planner