TSAVO NATIONAL PARK CLIMATE, CAMPING
Tsavo National Park Climate, Tsavo National Park is one of the oldest and largest parks in Kenya at 13,747 square kilometers. The park is situated in a semi-arid area, the area is 13,747km2 (5,308 sq. mil). Tsavo National park was established in 1948.The Tsavo National park is known for providing undeveloped wilderness homes to vast numbers of animals the famous which are the lions.
The climate of Tsavo National Park.
Climatic conditions of Tsavo National Park are so conducive in that they favor the wildness which makes the park to the best in the African wilderness safari destination. The Tsavo national park climate has an average temperature of 25 degrees Celsius. The average rainfall received in a year is around 1037 mm going deep to 40.8 inches deep. Due to the climatic changes sometimes the rains can be lower than or even higher than that some years.
The Tsavo National Park location of the semi-arid area makes the nights and the early mornings are generally cold while the days are very hot, even during the winter time the days are very hot and the sun comes out early, and the clouds cover is less only heavily when it’s about to rain.it takes a short period of set and it rains and after the rain it becomes hot and sunny again.
The altitude of the Tsavo National Park is above 463 meters above the sea level which is dominated by the tropical climate. The park has got two mainly seasons in the year with the first rains heavily and longer than the second rains, the well distribution of the rainfall patterns at the park has made all the animals at the park permanent residents which can be viewed anytime of the year. Tsavo National park has got two different types of seasons in the year that is the wet and the dry seasons.
Wet Season-October to May.
October, November and December – October usually signals the beginning of the rains. November is the one of the wettest months of the year.
January and February- These months see a break between the short and the long rains.
March, April and May- The long rains usually begin in the late March.
Dry season.
The dry season starts from June to September and again later from December to February. The rainy months starts from March to June annually. The climatic conditions of Tsavo National park are both hot and dry climate though not throughout the year but a longer period of the year and as well knowing the rainy seasons and dry seasons which helps you to know the climatic patterns of the park thus enabling to the proper planning of your safari and makes you to travel at the right time.
Camping in Tsavo National park.
Tsavo National park camping is one of the best time and great time which can make for you the best memories during your Visit Kenya. Camping is the adventuring your preferred time during the outdoors, that is the middle of the wilderness with a small tent that can be setup anytime of the day. Tsavo national park camping safaris are extra ordinary with good tents accompanied by the sleeping bags, the well facilitation toilets, adequate water facilities, camp fire, the mobile chef who provides food for the travelers or campers. There are both ordinary tents that are erected in public camping sites and the other tents are the private camping site as well as the executive.
The location of various camping sites in the National park where the executive is based on a permanent safari tent that is they are located in a good animal viewing areas such that it gives the guests the joy of game viewing at the comfort of their tent balcony, some of them are placed on the wildlife tracks or routes. This enables the animals to always be around the tent. Here the guests are always being a woken by the sounds of the animals reaching on their tents, the calls of the birds singing before the sun rises, at times you hear the king of the juggle roaring just meters away from your tent.
All the camping sites both the public and the private camping sites are easily accessible, some of them especially the public ones are located near the park gates or the park headquarters, which are well guarded by the park rangers and the local Maasai warriors. Camping in Tsavo national park gives you’re the best moments by hearing the singing birds wakes you up very early in the morning before the sun rises in the sky, the viewing of the various animal species which at times pass behind or the areas near the camping site.
Camping in Tsavo National park gives you the courage where the driver guide helps you to know if you have good clean new safari tents that have spacious space where even two guests can share if they want, the guide also checks weather you have the sleeping bags as well they disinfect to keep away the mosquitoes and other related pathogens.
Tsavo national park has two camping that is the public and the private camping, where the public camping here the camping sites for example like the Ndololo campsite are shared with other campers from different groups, here you may not need to book in advance but make booking the time your reach the park here there is always enough space. Where as in the private camping for example the Galdessa campsite is well organized though you have to book in advance since they have small space for camping, you pay the camping fee alone excluding the conservation fees. In private camping the facilities are good and some are even private compared to the public camping where you have to have with the chef and in private camping they provide you with the food, where they consider the various diets of the guests.
Tsavo National Park has the most favoring climatic conditions which should be alerted to the guests before travelling thus knowing the various seasons and the climatic conditions of the Tsavo national park thus relating them to the various activities they want to do in specified places, this enables the guest to enjoy the secret of African Wilderness through the camping activity.
