This is the easiest way to add a safari to a beach holiday. Tsavo East is Kenya’s largest park, known for its red-dust elephants and wide open plains, and it sits close enough to the coast to reach and return from in two days. We pick you up from your hotel in Malindi, Watamu, Diani or Mombasa and bring you back the next afternoon.
Pickup starts at 06:30 from your hotel. The drive to Tsavo East takes around three hours on tarmac road, and we enter through Sala Gate with a game drive on the way in, watching for elephants, giraffes, buffalo and lion. You reach your lodge around 13:00 for lunch and a short rest. At 16:00 you head out again for an evening game drive before dinner and an overnight stay in the park.
An early game drive at 06:30 catches the park at its coolest and most active, before breakfast at the lodge. From 09:30 there is one last game drive on the way to the gate, giving you a final chance at any animals you have not yet seen. You leave the park by midday and arrive back at your hotel in the early afternoon.
Safari rates change with the season, number of travellers and available accommodation.
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