DAY 1
TAITA HILLS WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, LUMO CONSERVANCY AND TAITA HILLS
After early breakfast, depart for Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary and have a game drive there. After lunch, you will head out for an afternoon game drive at the foots of Taita Hills and LUMO Community Wildlife Sanctuary which lies at the heart of the Tsavo ecosystem, surrounded by Tsavo East and West.
The area is a vital wildlife corridor for the animals of Tsavo East and West, an ancient elephant migratory route and an important breeding site for lions. It is also a home to abundant and diverse wildlife species, spectacular landscapes, and rich cultural heritage of the Taita people.
The little known 125,000-acre LUMO Community Wildlife Sanctuary is only 50 kilometers from Voi on the Taveta Road. The three group ranches (Lualenyi, Mramba, and Oza) joined together to form the sanctuary as a way to use the natural resources on their land. By investing the earnings from tourist activities, the community plays an integral role in conserving the biodiversity of the area by fighting poaching and the bush meat trade and creating awareness of invaluable wildlife.
The sanctuary is a model of how local people benefit from the union of conservation and enterprise to help alleviate poverty and conserve wildlife for this and future generations.
On your game drive, you will have a chance of spotting lion, leopard, cheetah, serval cat, civet, bat-eared fox, buffalo, giraffe, elephant, baboon, waterbuck, Coke's hartebeest, eland, gazelle, zebra, mongoose, hyrax, dik-dik, porcupine, oryx, the unusual aard-wolf, both striped and spotted hyena, and the prolific bird life features 600 recorded species.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner