TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

Tsavo National Park is the combined area of Tsavo West National and Tsavo East National Parks covering some 4% of Kenya’s total land area makes Tsavo National Park one of the world’s largest game sanctuaries. Situated halfway between Nairobi and Mombasa, the park is a haven for a diverse cross-section of wildlife, including the ‘Big Five’. Tsavo National Park is divided into two sectors by the Nairobi Mombasa Highway with Tsavo East National Park lies on the eastern side of the highway while on the western side of the road lies the Tsavo West National Park.

Tsavo West National Park stretches from the main Nairobi - Mombasa highway down to the Tanzania border covers 7,065 km of rolling plains and volcanic hill. Its attractions include extensive plains, intriguing outcrops of lava flows, steep rocky hills and Mzima Springs which forms a ‘natural Jacuzzi’ for hippos and crocodiles.

Tsavo West National Park is famous for its past, Tsavo became known worldwide in the late 1890's for the infamous man-eating lions that slowed the building of the Mombasa-Nairobi train tracks. For several months two large male lions terrorized the railway workers and brought work to a standstill until they were finally killed. Those two animals are no longer in Tsavo, but their descendants are; and therefore it is not unusual to see large prides of up to 16 lions lazing under a shady bush.

The Movie” The Ghost and the Darkness” starring Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer from the non-fiction book” The man eaters of the Tsavo” by Lieutenant colonel John Henry Patterson. Before the infamous hunting of Big game was banned Tsavo was a classic hunting ground for big game hunters such as the famous Denys Finch Hatton. This enormous plain of Tsavo spans spreads within the view of Mt.Kilimanjaro, Chyulu and Taita hills, home to elephant herds, cheetah, plain games and Maasai bomas (homesteads)