| Tsavo Safari camp -Tsavo East National Park | | | | The tents are comfortable and simply furnished. |
| Near Mtito Andei, this restful camp is a good | | | | They all have large shower bathrooms with solar |
| overnight stop enroute to the coast. Twenty -seven | | | | heated water and flush toilets. There are five family |
| kilometers into the hot dryness of the little-visited | | | | tents with extra beds. |
| Tsavo East National Park, the Tsavo Safari Camp is a | | | | Other facilities at the Tsavo safari camp |
| green oasis on the Athi River. To get there, you park | | | | Swimming pool, game drives |
| your vehicle in the camp lot and take a very short | | | | Voi safari lodge-Tsavo National Park |
| trip across the river in a rubber boat. | | | | Voi safari lodge sits high on a red rock bluff |
| Tsavo Safari camp has been in operation for 28 | | | | overlooking a busy water hole and a large expanse |
| years and was originally a hunting camp. Today 30 | | | | of Tsavo National Park east. The entire lodge curves |
| tents and six bandas (for those who don't like | | | | along the edge of the cliff so you get that marvelous |
| canvas) are set close together in a row along the | | | | view from every where-dining room, terrace, pool |
| river. They are well-shaded by mature trees. Small | | | | and bedrooms. |
| gardens of indigenous flowers and exotic plants are | | | | The lodge itself is not luxurious, but it is remarkable, |
| scattered in amazingly green lawns, a sharp swimming | | | | even spectacular in several ways. Natural rock has |
| pool is a refreshing treat. | | | | been used effectively in wall and floors with |
| The focal point of the camp is the stone and | | | | interesting gourd lamps in the lounge/bar, which is |
| thatches bar/dining area on two sides to garden and | | | | open to air and birds. The wooden animal carvings |
| river. Lionel Nutter is the long-time host -he creates a | | | | over the bar are often accented by the real thing |
| warm and personal atmosphere. Everything is very | | | | when baboons peer in through the roof skylight. |
| relaxed and casual. The bar has become a popular | | | | You walk on bare red rock through rock gardens to |
| watering hole for British Kenyans who might even fly | | | | the view point and the swimming pool at the edge of |
| in just for the afternoon. | | | | the cliff. In five minutes you can see Cape buffalo, |
| There are hundreds of resident birds-the camp is a | | | | elephants, numerous baobab and antelope from the |
| real hornbill heaven. Take you chair down to the river | | | | view -point. |
| bank to watch the birds at sunset. | | | | Each of the 50 double rooms has one entire wall of |
| It is not easy to see game from this camp. A dik dik | | | | windows, either two or three twin beds and a rather |
| here, a dik- dik there and the occasional Oryx or | | | | tired bathroom with telephone shower. |
| jackal. If you are lucky you might see a kudu. Since | | | | The lodge is located in Tsavo East national park, 338 |
| you leave your vehicle on the other side of the river, | | | | kilometers from Nairobi and 161 kilometers from |
| you must book and pay extra for game drives which | | | | Mombasa. It is very popular with tourists and is often |
| can be rather expensive. Another special offering is a | | | | used as a lunch stop en route between Mombasa |
| trip up to the yatta plateau for sundowners and to | | | | and Nairobi. There is an airstrip three kilometers away |
| watch the sun set behind mt. Kilimanjaro. | | | | near Voi town. |
| Accommodations in Tsavo national park camp | | | | |