The Tsavo Wilderness
 Encompassing some 8,069 square miles, Tsavo is Kenya's
largest National Park, comparable in size, remoteness and
wildlife to ANY wilderness area left in Africa. You will revel
in the experience of walking in spectacular country impenetrable
to vehicles. Finding, reading and following animal spoor will
open up the fascinating world so often overlooked on a more
conventional safari. The Tsavo Conservation Trust encompass an
enormous 380,000 acre stretch of un-spoilt private wilderness
that is nestled between Tsavo East and West which forms a vital
corridor route for a population of almost one thousand elephants
as they migrate between the Galana River in Tsavo East to Lake
Jipe in Tsavo West.
 Six comfortable en-suite twin tents are perched some 80 feet
up on a huge rock kopje overlooking the Tsavo wilderness, below
we have a small waterhole where Elephant, Cheetah, Impala,
Warthog, Buffalo, Lesser Kudu, Baboons and Vervet Monkeys come
to drink, and occasionally Lion and Leopard, may be seen. Each
day & night small silent herds of Elephant come to the
waterholes, and by digging small wells in the soft sand they
gain access to the water below. Their actions open up this
scarce water source to other smaller, weaker animals.
 At night the sounds of Africa take over and range from the
hooting of the tiny Scops Owls to the thundering roar of a male
Lion patrolling the limits of his territory. The day starts at
5.45 am with tea, coffee and biscuits, by 6.30 am you should be
on the trail, on foot or by car, to explore the happenings of
the previous night, fulfilling our needs of conservation and
wildlife monitoring. You will follow footprints, discovering in
detail exactly what happened - possibly the signs of a
confrontation between Lions - each dropping and footprint will
tell you an intricate tale.
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