2 Days Taita Hills Saltlick
Leave Mombasa very early in the morning and drive to Taita Hills Game Sanctuary. Arrive in time for lunch at the Salt Lick Lodge. After a short rest we go out for afternoon game drive. Dinner and overnight.
The Salt Lick Lodge is a unique lodge built atop stilts overlooking a waterhole – The exceptional architecture of small castles balancing on stone pillars is inspired by the indigenous Taita people’s mud hut with makuti (thatch) roof. The rooms are linked by suspended walkways under which elephants potter. It’s name (Salt Lick) is taken from its setting – a natural salt lick which was a congregating place for the neighborhood’s salt-hungry residents. The lodge is built such that all it’s rooms and restaurant overlook a waterhole which attracts a large array of wildlife including elephants, buffaloes, zebras, waterbucks, baboons and impalas among others.
The lodge has an underground tunnel and bunker with ground-level windows that provide even more incredible and safe views of the buffaloes and other animals as they quench their thirst.
NOTE: Night Game Drive available at extra cost. These nightly drives give you a chance to see rare animals such as the jackal, civet, genet, bush baby, spotted and stripped hyenas and porcupines.
Meals: Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation at the Salt Lick Lodge.
Day 2: Taita Hills Salt Lick Game Sanctuary Safari – Mombasa
Early morning game drive before breakfast. After breakfast proceed for another game drive as we leave the sanctuary and drive back to Mombasa where we will arrive in the afternoon.
Taita Hills Game Sanctuary, established in 1972, is a privately owned wildlife sanctuary located in Taita-Taveta County in the South-West region of Kenya and approximately 220 kilometers from Mombasa. The sanctuary covers an area of 28,000 acres (110 km2) and is adjacent to Tsavo West National Park and the LUMO Community Wildlife Sanctuary. The Taita Hills Game Sanctuary is majorly Savanna with some few areas covered with bushes and thickets providing a safe environment to over 50 species of mammals and 300 species of birds.Big Game likely to be seen in the sanctuary include Lions, Elephants, Buffaloes, Giraffes, different species of antelopes, Impala, Zebras and over 320 bird species
Meals: Breakfast
End of the 2 Days Taita Salt Lick Safari
