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Destination Africa - Kenya
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| Accommodation
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 Finch Hattons
Finch Hattons is located in the South Western Part of Tsavo West National Park near the boarder. It is owned and managed by Connie and Peter E. Frank, a career hotelier. It is easily accessible by both road and air with the Finch Hattons Heliport just outside the gate. The lodge is carefully designed and built around natural spring water inhibited with hippos and crocodiles. Finch Hattons is completely in the bush and provides the typical the African jungle atmosphere. For this reason, guests are always advised to be accompanied by an armed guard from the camp especially at night. In the dead of the night, it is not strange to be woken up by hippos coming out of the water to feed. The hotel serves a delicious is seven courses within the background of classical Music by Mozart. Guests have the liberty to choose what time they would wish to be woken up i.e. depending on if they would like to go for an early morning or late morning game drive. In this case, the lodge serves coffee or tea in rooms before one chooses to proceed for a game drive or just relax and wait for breakfast. During the dry season, it is easier to spot animals including large elephant herds and cats as they come to drink water at the spring.. Activities that the hotel engages in include: visit to Chyulu hills for a bush breakfast, or bush lunch, drive to poachers lookout, Lava field. There is a swimming pool where guests can refresh themselves as they others just enjoy a good book or magazine under the shed. There is no mobile telephone network coverage but there is wireless internet access.
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Galdessa Camp
Galdessa is a small up-market tented lodge in Tsavo East National Park. Accommodation and activities are geared at those travellers looking for a private experience in the African bush. From day game drives in open vehicles to walking safaris along the Galana river and wild luxurious meals in the bush, Galdessa offers an experience close to nature. The camp operates along ecological principles - solar power is used, waste is recycled, and there is a water treatment plant.The camp has only eight semi-tented thatched bungalows located far apart from each other for maximum privacy. Two cottages are suites with their own adjoining sitting room where room service is made available. The Honeymoon Suite has its own sitting room, viewing platform and water hole.
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Kilaguni Serena Safari Lodge
Kilaguni Serena is located in Tsavo West National Park. The lodge is about 14km drive from the Park’s Mtito Andei main gate. It has 56 rooms including 5 suites each with a balcony overlooking the animal waterhole. The restaurant serves a five course menu and opens to a view of Mawenzi and the snow capped Uhuru peaks of Kilimanjaro. Located right in the bush and overlooking a waterhole, it is easy to spot wild game including the big five. The lodge is also surrounded by a varied landscape of ragged and smooth hills. Notable are the Chyulu hills in the background to the North West. Guests can enjoy a bush breakfast or a sun downer at the Poachers’ Lookout, the Lion’s Rock or the Roaring Rock. Alternatively one can go trekking in the 5 sisters in the company of an armed ranger. The lodge is accessible both by road and air. The Kilaguni airstrip which serves other lodges within the National Park lies just outside the lodge gate. Internet service as well as Celtel network connection is available. The lodge has a swimming pool where visitors can relax during the hot tropical afternoon.While at the lodge, one has the opportunity to enjoy numerous attractions of Tsavo West for example, the Rhino Sanctuary (open daily 4:00pm – 6:00pm), the Mzima Springs, Shetani caves & Shetani lava, and much more.
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Kilalinda
Kilalinda is on the edge of Tsavo East in the shadow of the Yatta Plateau and easily accessible by road from Mombasa. The accommodation offers utmost privacy to guests and is very luxurious, with spacious living areas and four poster beds swathed in mosquito netting. The hand-dyed stylish bedspreads and wrought iron fittings lend a splash of Victorian grandeur to the rustic feel and outside baths enable you to bathe under the stars. Each room features its own shady private patio looking over a stretch of riverside 'beach' with its own little garden containing slate tables and safari chairs. The only interruption on your private beach is from the procession of birds that descent to your regularly replenished bird tables. There is a very special suite with its own private plunge pool for honeymooners, romantic couples and those wanting to really indulge themselves.
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Ndololo Safari Camp
Ndololo Safari Camp lies on the thicked forested banks of the Tsavo river within Tsavo East National Park, not far from Voi Gate. The camp has 20 well spaced tents, each self contained with a verhanda, furnished in a blend of ancient and modern with carved olive furniture and African artifacts. The local area is teaming with game, includin the "Big Five", and a wide variety of bird species. Activities include walking with guides, Bush BBQs, and evenings around the camp fire. Guests can do game drives, guided walks, bird watching.
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Ngulia Safari Camp
Ngulia Safari Camp is situated at the base of Ngulia hills. The camp consists of 25 Bandas all with views together with the spacious well designed, well stocked bar restaurant overlooking water springs and hills to the north. Ngulia hills devices its name from the Wangulia or Wanyangulia sub tribe of the Akamba who were hunters and gatherers. The camp is on a full board or self catering program. The bandas are stocked with mini-bar. There are 8 self catering units two of which are family rooms. Activities include: bush breakfast, bush dinner (within the compound on a site specifically built for this purpose. The honeymoon suite is the most appealing of all bandas.
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Satao Camp
In Satao Camp you experience a real African adventure sensation. It is nestled amongst trees overlooking a water hole, an oasis in the vast scrubland of Tsavo East National Park. The 20 spacious tents form a semi-circle facing the water hole. Each tent is equipped with electricity from the camp generator and has a private bathroom with running water. The showers are in the ""old fashioned"" safari style whereby the camp staff brings hot water in the evening, filling the shower bags. After a day on game drives and guided bush walks, dine in the open plain restaurant and after dinner relax around the campfire, just like in the good old days.
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Voi Wildlife Lodge
Nestled in the heart of elephant country, Voi Wildlife Lodge is located in the Savannah grasslands of Tsavo East just five kilometers off the road from Nairobi to Mombasa. The lodge offers spectacular views of nearby volcanic outcrops, such as the Kasigau, Sagalla and Mwakingali Hills. Designed to blend unassumingly into the surrounding environment, it overlooks a natural waterhole often attracting big game, including elephant, lion, cheetah, buffalo as well as a rich variety of birdlife. The four year old lodge has 68 clean neatly furnished rooms which are quite specious. The rooms are in three categories: Luxury, Superior and Standard rooms. One luxury room could easily fit up to a family of 5, including 3 kids. There are two swimming pools, a modern, well equipped gym, a spa, two massage rooms and a sauna. The spare garden is suitable for outdoor dinner and private parties. The water hole provides a good attraction for elephants which spend most of their time feeding in the swampy background beyond the lodge. An electric wire fence erected around the Park separate the lodge from the jumbos and ensures they stay within the protected area. To have a close up view, an extension above the animals grazing ground has been built so that one can come as close as possible and also take photos. With a four hour drive from Nairobi and just two hours from Mombasa, the lodge is ideally placed for visitors wishing to combine a 'bush' and 'beach' safari holiday.
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