Tsavo National Park
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Tsavo National Park
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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