Tsavo is the
traditional home for the African elephant.
Some years back, it was a classic hunting ground for accomplished big
game hunter such as Denys Finch Hatton. It lies within the view of majestic Mt.
Kilimanjaro. The park is a paradise to elephant herds, cheetahs and games of
the plain.
Tsavo National Park is
divided into Tsavo East National Park and Tsavo West National Park. The parks
are wild, enormous and diverse.
Youtube: EWP Tsavo West Safari Video
Tsavo
East National Park is synonymous with the Hirola Antelope.
Other wildlife include lions, leopards, cheetahs, zebras, antelopes, giraffes,
lesser kudus, kongonis, impalas, stripped hyenas, klipspringers, gazelles,
buffalos and elephants. Other attractions at the park; The Lugard Falls and the
Rhino sanctuary, the world’s largest lava flow and the River Galana coursing
its way to Indian Ocean, perfect scenes for avid photographers.
Tsavo
West National Park is famous for the Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo, which preyed on Indian coolies building
the Great Uganda Railway. The memories of the notorious lions are captured in The
Man-Eaters of Tsavo, a non-fiction book by lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson from which the movie The
Ghost and the Darkness starring Michael
Douglas and Val Kilmer was shot
in 1996 in Kenya.
Source: Travel DiscoverKenya || KWS
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