TSAVO
NATIONAL PARK KENYA SAFARI
Sitting astride the main Nairobi-Mombasa road, the combined area of
Tsavo West and East is larger than Wales or Jamaica. With its large
herds of elephants and buffaloes and diversity of animal, bird and plant
life, Tsavo is an ideal stopover en route to Mombasa.
With the park's
great diversity of plants and animals coupled with its
well maintained all weather roads, it has become a model
national park.
Besides the
gigantic elephants, other animals such as lions, some
undoubtedly direct descendants of the man-eaters of Tsavo,
can be seen roaming around in this national park. Among
the not so common animals to be found here are fringed-eared
oryx, the gerenuk and the lesser kudu. The carnivores
found here include serval, hyena, leopard, cheetah and
caracal. The landscape is filled with giant baobab tree
and which are reputed to live a thousand years.
Larger
mammals include cheetah, elephant, black rhino, hippo,
giraffe, lesser kudu, oryx, Cape buffalo, zebra, yellow
baboon, waterbuck, Coke's hartebeest, gerenuk, and
gazelle. Crocodiles can be found in pools while various
fish live in the Park's rivers and springs.