To reduce the miles to be travelled and avoid police and lorries for much of the way we opted to pay the park charge and cross through Tsavo East. There had been rain forming torrents in places so the road had been graded the whole way giving a bone shaking, vehicle rattling drive. It wasn’t long before we had to cross an extremely muddied stretch of road, luckily a safari vehicle was crossing the opposite way, so we waited for each other ready to tow if necessary. We only saw two other vehicles on the entire drive through. We didn't divert from the track searching for animals, but still saw a good number.
Large swathes of the habitat had dried to a crisp, looking
extremely inhospitable to all but the most specially adapted species. The river
was now in spate, starkly contrasting with the arid sections seen.
There was game to be seen and we enjoyed viewing the species that we found.
