The twin parks form one of Africa’s largest wilderness reserves. Consisting of 10 million acres of pure wilderness made of savannah, range and hills, acacia, montane forest and extensive river system. They cover 4% of Kenya’s total land area of 11,747sq.km in the Southeast of Kenya. Rising to 1,200 m above sea level, it has warm and dry climate and features bushy grasslands, open plains, semi-arid acacia scrubs and wood lands.
Wildlife
The Park is home to most of larger mammals, vast herds of dust red-red elephant, Rhino, b The ‘Man-Eaters' of TsavoThe Park acquired its name ‘Tsavo', meaning ‘slaughter' from the Akamba people, who first migrated to the area some five centuries ago - long before the arrival of the more famous leonine slaughterers, the ‘Man-Eaters' of Tsavo.Man Eaters of TsavoThis historic railway was, in 1899, the scene of one of Africa’s greatest Adventure stories where two large lions actively preyed on the railway workers as they built a bridge over the Tsavo River, claiming over 120 victims. They evaded hunters for well over a year, and the legend of the Man eaters of Tsavo was born. The Park is therefore famous for its numerous pride of mane-less lion Tsavo East is the larger of the two, dramatically presents a theatre of the wild. Buffalo, lion, leopard, hippos, and waterbucks, Kudus, Gerenuk and Hirola.Largest safari elephant herds in the world
It offers a vast arena of parched scrub and heat-shimmering bush which is washed by the azure waters and emerald-fringed meanderings of the Galana River, guarded by the limitless lava reaches of the Yatta Plateau and patrolled by some of the largest safari elephant herds in the world.Short OverviewLand of Lava, Springs and Man Eaters. The twin parks form one of Africa’s largest wilderness reserves consisting of 10 million acres of pure wilderness made of savannah, range and hills, acacia, montane forest and extensive river system. 
