8 Days Highlights of Diani Beach Stay and Tsavo East Safari Adventure in Kenya

Facilities

Day 1: Arrival to Mombasa

Upon arrival, you will be met and transferred to Leopard Beach Resort along the beach of Diani. You will check in in a standard garden room and you will be served with breakfast and dinner.

Day 2: Diani Beach

You will spend a full day at leisure in Leopard Beach Resort and you will be served with breakfast and dinner.

Day 3: Mombasa to Tsavo East

You will check out from your hotel room. After an early breakfast, you will be picked up from your beach hotel and depart to Tsavo East National Park (12,000 square kilometers). Upon entering the park, the driver will open the roof of your bus so you can stand up with the wind in your hair. Your safari adventure has now begun! Tsavo is the largest national park in Kenya and is split into east and west by the highway.

You will arrive at your lodge in time for lunch and later enjoy time for relaxation before setting off back into the park for your afternoon game drive. You will return to your lodge as the sun sets. You will stay overnight at Voi Wildlife Lodge, and you will be served with breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Day 4: Tsavo East to Mombasa

You will have an early morning game drive in the park followed by breakfast at the lodge. Then, you will drive back to beach hotel arriving late in the afternoon. You will check in at Leopard Beach Resort in a standard garden room and you will be served with breakfast and dinner.

Day 5 to 7: Diani Beach

You will spend a full day at leisure in Leopard Beach Resort and you will be served with breakfast and dinner.

Day 8: Departure to Mombasa

You will check out at 10:00 a.m. then you will transfer to Moi International Airport (MBA) in Mombasa for your return flight which will be booked by you. And that is the end of your safari adventure.

Diani Beach

Diani Beach is perhaps the best beach in Kenya. It is wide, silvery, palm shaded, and reef fringed, with some sandbars in the lagoon that are exposed at low tide for excursions from the hotels in dugouts or glass-bottomed boats. There is a good balance of places to stay, places to eat, sea and land-based activities, and various spots to drink and party a little.

Tsavo East National Park

It is more than 13,700 square kilometers and is most famous for its huge herds of dust-red elephants that more than 10,000 of them bulldoze the way around the vast park. Tsavo East is mostly a vast flat plain of sandy soil, split by the shallow trough of the Galana River.

The plant communities of Tsavo East are dominated by short grasses, thorn bushes, and two major species of tree. The baobab is the iconic tree of Tsavo West National Park, across the Mombasa highway, but you still find significant numbers of these compelling trees, with their enormous trunks and stumpy branches. They form important habitats for many species of birds and insects, you will often see hornbills using holes in baobabs to nest in.

On wildlife densities, short-maned Tsavo lions and cheetahs appear often. All the plains grazers and bush browsers are much in evidence and elephants with big tusks are many, surging across the river, wallow in the waterholes, and file over the red earth roads in front of bulging baobab trees.

Despite being in southeast Kenya, Tsavo East is zoologically associated with northern Kenya, meaning you will see long-necked gerenuk and Somali ostrich, the male of which has a blue neck and legs, and introduced herds of the handsome, fine-striped, Grevy’s zebra. There is also a breeding population of black rhinos, closely monitored by rangers who track them through the bush, though very few travelers on Tsavo East safaris are lucky enough to see them.

Daily meals are included as per itinerary. Different dishes will be available in buffet-style. An additional 15 EUR per person per day is required for a full-board meal supplement at Leopard Beach. Aside from food, you will also be given one liter of bottled mineral water per person per day.

In this safari trip, you will be able to relax at the beach, enjoy swimming, sign up for a spa treatment in the resort, or shopping. You can also experience a Wasini Island excursion and Mombasa city tour.

• 2 game drives in Tsavo East National Park
• Meet and greet services
• Service of an English-speaking guide and driver
• Guaranteed window seat
• 7 nights' accommodation
• Airport transfers from and to Moi International Airport (MBA)
• All park fees and government taxes
• 5 breakfasts, 1 lunch, and 5 dinners
• 1 liter of bottled mineral water per person per day

• Excursions
• International flights
• Any items of personal nature
• Dining room tips
• Drinks
• Driver and guide gratuities
• Insurance
• Laundry
• Medical insurance
• Personal travel and baggage
• Porterage
• Spa treatments
• Telephone bill
• Tips
• Visas

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• A reservation requires a deposit of 20% of the total price.
• The deposit is fully refundable if the booking is cancelled up to 60 days before the arrival date.
• The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.