"Bless the rains down in Africa." Not just a song from Toto, but not something you think of when going on a trip to Africa either. We went when it was supposed to be the end of the rainy season, but it rained just about every night we were in Kenya.

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In Tsavo East, we were greeted by the larger-than-life, baobab tree known as the tree of life, with good reason. They provide shelter, clothing, food, and wear for both animal and humans in the African Savannah. The bark is cork-like and the huge stems are fire resistant making them great material for clothes and rope. After the rains of the night, the trees were loaded with birds if you looked closely enough. This park would be perfect for any bird watcher! We didn't know much of what we were seeing and our guide would only tell us a few here and there. We did see a bunch of horn bills though!

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Tsavo West is known as the land of the man-eaters. In 1898 between March and December, there were dozens of deaths of conduction workers on the Kenya- Uganda railway caused by two mane-less man-eating lions in the Tsavo region. They are known for their unusual behavior of killing men and the manner of their attacks. Now Tsavo West is one of the world's largest game parks. 

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Tsavo is also the only park that does not have elephants. Because of this the hotels and resorts offer night drives to see the lions, we missed out on this though due to it raining really hard that night.