Top Local Tips for Mombasa

Visas and airport tax Get your visa in advance if you can - if not take dollars - they wont accept kenyan schillings or £'s. Cost us £74.00 at airport because of exchange rate. Also need 20$ each on return

Tsavo East and West Tsavo East is (The largest park in Kenya which covers an area of 13,747 km2) and arrive at Bachuma. Begin the game drive en route to Aruba Dam (A water hole where animals come to drink water). Physical attractions include Tsavo River, Yatta Plateau which is 300 km2, Mdanda Rock, Lugard Falls, Voi seasonal River and Aruba Dam. Tsavo West National Park is the second largest park in Kenya which covers and area of 9,065 km2. Physical attractions include semi arid regions, grassland savannah, lion rocks, and views of Taita Hills and Pare mountains in Tanzania, Acacia forests and cammiphora bushes among others. This is home to elephants, buffalos, lions, cheetahs, giraffes, heart beasts, eland antelopes and zebras among others. This place hosts around 52 species of birds and some of which have been recorded include ostriches, kori bustard (the heaviest flying bird in the world), guinea fowls, spur fowls, sprawlings among others.