Worth the hype: Tell them I will be in Tsavo

Elephants at Tsavo west national park in Mtito Andei in Makueni. [David Gichuru, Standard]

Tsavo West National Park is the only park in Kenya with volcanic activity, where you can get into a river and watch the fish, hippos and crocodiles from inside the river, and of course, the home of the famous man-eating lions.

My chance to finally say, “Tell them I will be in Tsavo,” like Robert Redford said in the romantic 1985 Out of Africa film (which won a whopping seven Oscars) had finally come. My long wait was more than rewarded, and my only complaint about Tsavo West ended up being the fact that you cannot exhaust it. It is massive.