Tsavo East, Tsavo National Park East

This place is so amazing,clean game park,I have visited this place many times,the experience here was so good,well served at entrance,full guide by workers,we had fun with my friends, climbing up mountain, viewing water falls, viewing fishes on screen,And the most experience with monkeys,hehehe it was good great trip,also elephant, giraffes where allover, Hotel here are good ,for those who take beer also club have everything you may need on your visit, swimming pool for all age.i look forward visiting here again with family.

Huge national park with unique red elephants. I visited for one night on the way driving myself from Malindi to Nairobi in December 2022. The sala gate is under 2 hours drive from Malindi on a good road. I was advised at the gate that there was not much wildlife near the entrance and to head to the Aruba area which is another hour and a bit further in. There were no day guides for hire at the gate when I arrived early afternoon, so I knew spotting the rarer wildlife would be tough on my own. The signage at junctions is very good though, so navigation was not an issue. At the time of my visit most of the roads had a deeply washboarded surface from rains which made driving uncomfortable. It's such a huge park that I doubt they can grade the roads as often as other parks. OK for specially adapted safari vehicles, but my poor car (4x4 with off-road tyres, but standard suspension) didn't enjoy the constant vibration! A lot of the park was very green when I visited, but the wildlife density seemed low, I believe they had serious drought earlier in 2022 and the impact is still felt. I did see plenty of healthy looking elephants though, covered in red earth, my local National park in Nakuru does not have elephants, so that was what I really wanted to spend time watching. I stayed in the Ndololo KWS public campsite, it's broadly similar to other unfenced KWS public campsites; a few pitching areas with stones for campfires, a toilet and shower block in moderate condition, basic kitchen hut and picnic tables, cheeky monkeys looking for food and signs of bigger animals visiting at night. Great value for Kenya residents at ~200 shillings. I was the only person there apart from the warden's family. If I were to visit again I would definitely make sure I had a guide with a radio as it's just so big (bigger than the country of Jamaica!) that going with no local knowledge or connection to other guides means your chances of being in the right place at the right time for the predators are very small. I exited at the Manyani gate which is on the main Mombasa Nairobi road a bit North of Voi, so it's not a big detour compared to the road route to/from Malindi if you're headed that way.