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Tsavo National Park East Travel Guide: 114 reviews and 288 photos

Its bigger than Wales!!!!

I was like a 5 year old, so excited was I when I booked the 2 day safari from Malindi. Couple hundred dollars it may have been, but this was a dream come true within the realms of affordability - even if it meant getting up at 5am!

Collected at the hotel in the centre of Malindi, stop off at Watamou and the various beach hotels there and we were off into the interior and a 3 hour drive. Coffee stop (and tourist paraphanalia shopping opps) meant fellow travellers had chance to wake up and get to know each other a bit better. Weird that we were all either Brits or Irish! We were to spend the next two days together so worth getting to know each other for sure.

In the park by about 830am - mornings and twilight being the best time for animal spotting. And as you will read in the tips, we struck gold with our guide and the sightings.

Format was approx 3 hour drive, stop for lunch (longer than anticipated as we got a puncture - so we went swimming at the pool of the rest stop!), drive to the hotel through stunning countryside, dinner at the hotel, relatively early night as pre-breakfast game drive at 6am - 2 hours of that (including a pretty close sticky-beak at Kilimanjaro - although probably hundereds of miles away in real terms-:)), departure around 11am and a 5 hour drive back to the coast. Pretty exhausting but worth every minute of it.
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My first elephant (and it wasn't to be the last). Look in the bushes to the right - you can see a baby copying - mom? dad? - with its trunk.

Last visit to Tsavo National Park East: Mar 1996
Intro Updated Feb 28, 2004
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Reviews (17)

Voi Things to Do (16)

Inside the park itself, Voi provides accommodation or, more commonly, is used as a lunch pit stop for the safari jeeps.... more travel advice

One last elephant shot - Tsavo National Park East

One last elephant shot Things to Do (16)

The biggest thrill was the elephants. more travel advice

Every size Things to Do (16)

The lizard and others came to see us at Voi Guest House and Rest Stop, where she stayed for lunch (and found we had a... more travel advice

Landscape Things to Do (16)

Officially, this is outside the Tsavo NP and is on the route from Voi Rest House to the Nature Reserve and Hilton On... more travel advice

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Wafro Sep 16, 2011 at 10:58 PM

Always love to read and see tips of places I once visited. You should be lucky with such a big tent
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btw. your name is a famous Belgian beer
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Homanded May 28, 2007 at 5:05 AM

Nice animal pics Keith. There is no place like Kenya and it's parks
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Bwana_Brown Mar 30, 2007 at 9:55 AM

Wow, that looks one one fantastic game safari you went on!! Great photos of the game and well written too. I had to laugh at your Hilton tip! I always regret having driven past Tsavo on my way from Nairobi to Mombasa many years ago!
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Jim_Eliason Aug 2, 2006 at 5:31 PM

great safari pics!
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CeciliaL Jul 25, 2006 at 9:21 PM

Great information and a fun place!! I love the pictures.
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adelaidean Sep 28, 2005 at 1:11 AM

What a fantastic experience..Thanks for sharing it..
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JellyTrollMorton Nov 30, 2004 at 4:27 AM

Great pictures. The guys that you labeled as Elands? are waterbuck, the springbok? looks like a greater kudu, and I am guessing the last eland guess is a tsessebe or a hartebeest.
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laughingsun69 Sep 24, 2004 at 8:51 AM

Tsavo looks great Keith ,some great wildlife shots here ,especailly of the elephants in full swing there an awsome sight :)
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mrclay2000 Jan 5, 2004 at 4:48 AM

From the Hilton on stilts or from the jeep, I'll take this adventure as well.
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hgchuy Dec 19, 2003 at 9:36 AM

And this one is a Hartebeast. :-)