4 Days safari Tsavo West-Amboseli & Tsavo East National Park Safari
Duration
Tour Type
Safari Overview
The Tsavo Parks are legendary for their size and their fascinating stories. Amboseli Park is one-of-a-kind, sitting at the foot of mighty Mt. Kilimanjaro, home to innumerable herds of elephants.
Tsavo West National Park:
- Scenic hills and valleys
- Game viewing drives
- Crocodile, hippo, exotic fish and migratory birds at the Mzima springs
- Africa’s limitless expanses of the wild.
- Lava flows
- Recent Volcanoes
Amboseli National Park
- Mount Kilimanjaro, highest mountain in Africa
- Swamps below observation hill hosting large herds of elephants, buffalo, hippo and a variety of waterfowls like pelican, Egyptian goose.
- A glimpse of African homesteads & cultures
Tsavo East National Park:
- Game viewing drives
- Lion, elephant, cheetah, giraffe, buffalo, antelope, warthog, ostrich, Baboons, birds.
- Herds of dust-red elephant wallowing, rolling or simply foraging
- The beautiful manmade Aruba dam
- Mudanda Rock
Included
- Transport in a customized 4x4 pop up top safari Jeep.
- Experienced driver guide
- Game viewing drives.
- Park entrance fees.
- All meals on safari.
- Bottled drinking water in safari vehicle.
- Pick up at Mombasa/Diani/Bamburi beach resorts.
- Government taxes and local levies
Excluded
- Items and services of a personal nature
- Tips & gratuities.
Tour Plan
Meal Plan: Lunch & Dinner.
The safari begins with a pick-up at your beach hotel or resort. We’ll take the scenic Mombasa – Nairobi Highway, The journey includes several stops to stretch and get refreshments.
Safari
You’ll enjoy the landscape of Tsavo West almost as much as the wildlife. Here you’ll go on game drives over rolling hills and grassy savannah, passing volcanic lava beds and rich oases. Besides the big game, look for the smaller treasures like bush baby, lesser kudu and dik-dik.
After lunch, we’ll journey over to a special site in the park – the 90 sq. km rhino sanctuary. This protected enclosure holds over 80 of the endangered, nocturnal creatures. If we’re lucky, we’ll spot one of the immense but shy rhinos.
Overnight
Dinner and Overnight at the safari Lodge/Tent of your choice.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Safari
One of the gems of Tsavo West is a spring-fed oasis called Mzima Springs. Mzima means “life” in Swahili, and here we will find many forms of life at these nourishing waters – hippo, crocodile, exotic fish and birds.
We’ll explore the shaded banks of the springs on foot and take in other wildlife like zebra and giraffe that are drawn here.
Our final game drive will bring us to the park’s borders and a relatively short trip to Amboseli Park to the south.
You may be able to track your journey to the park as the great form of Mt. Kilimanjaro appears on the horizon. This largest peak in Africa is the grand backdrop to Amboseli and presents a majestic presence, framing the reserve’s wildlife. So be sure to have your camera ready.
We will have a relaxed afternoon watching for the wildlife. The park’s small size and sparse foliage will make game spotting easier. But it will be impossible to miss the immense elephants here. Amboseli is known to be the best spot in Africa to see free-ranging herds marching before you with their proudly held tusks.
Toward evening, the cloud cover masking Kilimanjaro’s snowy peak may drift away revealing one of Africa’s greatest treasures.
Overnight
Overnight at the Lodge or Camp of your choice
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Safari
We’ll rise with the dawn for a pre-breakfast game drive and perhaps a clear view of Kilimanjaro’s white-capped summit.
A hearty safari breakfast follows to fortify us for the day ahead. On our final game drive as we depart the park, we’ll be looking for lion, cheetah and hyena… and we’ll bid farewell to the elephants of Amboseli.
Now we’re back on the Mombasa-Nairobi Highway as we make tracks to Tsavo East National Park, Kenya’s largest.
Here at Tsavo, the terrain is rugged and sparse, but that only makes the game viewing more accessible. We’ll be looking for the big hunters and grazers, especially the “red dust” elephants. The giant beasts here like to roll in the red oxide soil, giving themselves a hearty coating of the rusty color.
We will have a relaxing afternoon, tracking the many species of the park, including over 500 types of birds.
It’s been a busy day and as the sunset approaches, we’ll freshen up for dinner and the evening ahead.
Overnight
Dinner and overnight at the lodge or camp of your choice
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch
We’ll get up… early! There’s so much to see here at Tsavo. After appreciating the wildlife as it emerges into the light, we’ll head back for breakfast.
During our stay at Tsavo East, we’ll visit some of its famous watering holes like Mudanda Rock and Aruba Dam, where a multitude of wildlife seek the life-sustaining waters. Don’t be surprised to find every sort of species sharing this communal space.
Drop off
We’ll stop at an open-air restaurant with great vistas of the Tsavo East plains, our final view of the area
