Tsavo East, Tsavo West and Chyulu Hills National Park

Tsavo National Park is the largest Game sanctuary in the world comprising Tsavo East, Tsavo West and Chyulu hills. It is well over twenty one thousands square kilometers and is located halfway between Nairobi and Mombasa. Its fascinating, awe inspiring landscape and proximity to Kenya’s coast makes the park a popular safari destination. The game sanctuary is one of the world’s leading biodiversity areas. It is ideal for photography on account of its unlimited sunlight and the expanse of the Yatta plateau – the world’s largest lava flow. One of the out standing features of this sanctuary is its huge population of large red elephants which derive their red coloring from the rich red earth of the park. Other wildlife to be seen include, buffalos, rhinos, lions, hippos, leopards, crocodiles, water

bucks, kudus, gerenuks, zebras, hartebeests and the hirola antelope that has been translocated  to Tsavo East. Tsavo occupies its place in the frontier folklore as a place where two lions killed and ate close to forty engineers and their crew who constructing the Kenya-Uganda railway during the turn of the century.
The man eaters of Tsavo nearly brought the construction work to a halt. The marauding lions of Tsavo have been immortalized in a book entitled, “Man Eaters of Tsavo” written by Colonel J.J Patterson.
The park has well over five hundred species of birds which include ostrich, buzzards and migratory kestrel. Some specific areas of the park are ideal for walking safaris as there are many nature trails and it is possible to explore the famous Chaimu volcanic craters. Chyullu hills and the great Kilimanjaro can be viewed clearly from this park. Other outstanding feature worth seeing include and geological formations, Shetani lava flow and Mzima springs underwater observatory.