Tsavo National Park East Things to Do

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Inside the park itself, Voi provides accommodation or, more commonly, is used as a lunch pit stop for the safari jeeps. It's a busy place at these times and there can be hundreds of people arriving fairly close to each other. Hotel provides an all you can eat buffet for rhis service.

Accommodation looks comfortable without luxuries and there's a pool on offer. But the view is stunning.

Officially, this is outside the Tsavo NP and is on the route from Voi Rest House to the Nature Reserve and Hilton On Stilts. You can see it's much more fertile than the Park and supports a thriving community.

More 'antelopes' - but this one has fantastic horns! A brief sighting of this one, but of all the 'antelopes' this was the one that caused most interest among our group. This probably aided by the fact that the mountains in the background belong to the Kilimanjaro range.

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I suppose this should be a 'transport' tip, but... We may have started from the coast at 5am, we may have only just met each other, but there was no way we were going to miss this! No more than 6 (no - wait a minute, there were 8 of us plus the driver - where's the other two gone?), you can see these safari jeeps are made to maximise your viewing, even if, as a result of standing for most of the day, they are not the most comfortable. And over 2 days, interesting how everyone moreorless sits in the same seats :)

There are so many different types of 'antelopes' (I know this is not the generic name but...) that, like the monkeys, you become somewhat indifferent and blase about seeing them... Terrible, isn't it? But these were the first animals we saw in the Park.

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Our guide was a good one - he found some great spots, but at the same time respected the animals, keeping his distance. Throughout he was chuckling - it was a very long time since he had seen so many animals in such a short space of time (we'd only been in the park 40 minutes). This was one of the busiest moments in the entire safari. Every radio had crackled informing each other of the herd at the river.

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Not these guys though! 10 a penny. They seemed to appear virtually every time we stopped. Guide was telling us its because some tourists feed them, mainly bananas and fruit. Animals now know that chances are that food came with the jeeps.

We became completely blase about these guys as we saw them all over the place - sad really, but then we're there for the bigger creatures!

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Just 5 minutes after the elephants we see the female lion. Even the guide cannot quite believe how lucky we are! A couple of other jeeps turfed up at this point, but its all very discrete and the lion moreorless completely ignored us anyway :)