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Our next stop was Tsavo East. Sort of. Nadia had said she was keen for another game park and we thought Tsavo West was a good option, having made our way toward Tsavo West we were stopped by an amry dude and told that we needed to continue in a convoy due to a kidnapping that had happed about 4 years ago. Although we commend Kenya for their viligence, it seemed like there were no campsites on the edge of the park and we weren’t quite ready to do another National Park right away. So we made a Massive-feeling detour and fortuitously (as it was getting dark and we were running our of hope) a traffic officer pointed us to a lodge with camping that he had worked at previously.

And it was lovely, Sagala Lodge is just outside Tsavo East – they have a pool and are in the middle of the bush. We spent 4 days there catching up on some reading, enjoying the pool and even eating at the lodge (yummo).

Dinner at Sagala

Lunch with the locals

While we stayed there we also went into Tsavo East. Our aircon had started playing up hence our desperation when we got halfway through our evening drive in Tsavo…

Swimming in the larney lodge's pool

The next morning after having not been super impressed with Tsavo East, we decided to do our own drive – and this turned out to be the best decision. We stayed off the main routes and enjoyed some of the most spectacular landscapes as a reward! We took a shortcut through the park to Watamu (Kenya’s best beach) skipping out Mombasa.

Longest Horns

Longest Neck

Kath's first decent bird pic

Checking out the Falls in Tsavo East

As we were nearing the end of the trip our proud record of always spotting lion was in danger of being broken… But never fear, a tour operator pulled us over, asked us what we had seen and directed us to the nearest lion. We duly followed his advice, pulled up to the lion, got our photos and continued out the park and on to Watamu.