3-Day Tsavo East Safari departing Malindi

Your safari begins in Malindi, where your guide greets you warmly and gives a short briefing on the days ahead before pointing the vehicle inland towards Tsavo.

Sit back and enjoy the drive from Malindi to Tsavo East National Park as the scenery shifts from the coast to open red-earth bushland, with comfort stops whenever you need them.

Check in to your lodge or camp in Tsavo East National Park, settle into your room and enjoy lunch with time to relax before the afternoon game drive.

Begin your first guided game drive across Tsavo East National Park — vast, wild and famous for elephants tinted red by its dust. Routing follows wildlife movement, light and road conditions, so the park itself sets the afternoon's programme.

As evening settles, return to your lodge or camp to freshen up, enjoy dinner and let the day's sightings sink in.

Wake to a relaxed breakfast at your Tsavo East lodge or camp — fuel for a full day in the park.

Head out at first light on a guided morning game drive — the busiest part of the day in Tsavo East, when the plains are cool and alive and predators may still be about.

Return to your lodge or camp for lunch and a rest during the hottest hours, just like the wildlife, before heading back out for the afternoon drive.

Set out again for an afternoon game drive through new corners of Tsavo East National Park, chasing softer light and the renewed wildlife activity that comes with it.

Dinner at your lodge or camp, then an evening beneath a brilliant starry sky — Tsavo's night sky is a spectacle in its own right.

Enjoy a final unhurried breakfast at your Tsavo East lodge or camp, with the park's morning chorus for company.

Check out at a relaxed pace and pack up for the journey — keep your eyes peeled, the wildlife doesn’t know your safari is ending.

Begin the return drive towards Malindi, the red plains of Tsavo East gradually giving way to coastal greenery, with comfort stops whenever you need them.

Pause for a relaxed lunch and a chance to freshen up before completing the journey back to the coast.

Back on the road for the final stretch into Malindi, the safari giving way, kilometre by kilometre, to the promise of the ocean.

Final drop-off in Malindi at the agreed hotel, residence, airport or pick-up point — three days among red elephants and wide horizons, leaving you richer in experience.