In Season two of #EventVenuesKE We travel to Tsavo West National Park in Kwale County.
The park is 7,065km² and was gazetted in April 1948. Located at The Park are amazing sites ideal for Corporate Conferencing activities/ Business and Leisure Travelers.
In this Episode we reviewing 3 amazing sites.
1. Mzima Springs
Which are a series of four natural springs which are located in the wes of the Park, around 48 km from Mtito Andei. The source of the springs is a natural reservoir under the Chyulu Hills (The Chyulu range is composed of volcanic lava rock and ash, which is too porous to allow rivers to flow. Instead, rain water percolates through the rock, and may spend 25 years underground before emerging 50 kilometres away at Mzima.
The natural filtration process gives rise to Mzima's famously clear stream, which flows through a series of pools and rapids. Two kilometers downstream from the springs, the stream is blocked by a solidified lava flow and disappears below the surface again.
2. Shetani Lava Flow
About 4km west of the Chyulu gate of Tsavo West National Park, on the road to Amboseli, are the spectacular Shetani lava flows. ‘Shetani’ means ‘devil’ in Kiswahili: the flows were formed only a few hundred years ago and local peoples believed that it was the devil himself emerging from the earth.
This vast expanse of folded black lava spreads for 50 sq km across the savannah near the Chyulu Hills, looking strangely as if Vesuvius dropped its comfort blanket here.
3. Further south of the Shetani Lava flow is the Chaimu Crater. This volcanic hill rises is stark isolation from a setting of solidified lava flows, forming an almost perfect conical pyramid whose coal black ashy support a meagre cover of yellow grass on one side and are totally denuded on the other. The natural equivalent of a giant slagheap , the honeycombed hill can be climbed via a steep, soft and shade less path to the rim which offers fantastic views over the surrounding plains.
