Ithumba Hill
Exclusive-use lodge · Tsavo East, Northern Area, built into a rock outcrop · Sheldrick Lodges, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
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Top-end
Inside the park
Owner/family-run
Built into granite above the Northern Area, the part of Tsavo East almost nobody reaches by road. The draw is exclusive access to the Ithumba elephant orphan unit, where the ex-orphans come back to the mud bath, and there is essentially no other vehicle traffic up here.
Why you'd pick it
- Clifftop panorama over the remote northern sector
- Infinity pool set into the rock
- Exclusive access to the Ithumba orphan unit, mud bath and stockades
What the park charges on top
The rate above buys you a bed. Tsavo National Parks charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entryThe non-resident rate, and East and West are ticketed separately.
- $80per person, per day
- VehicleKSh 600 a day for a typical hire car, roughly $5.
- $5per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $495 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
A combination ticket covering both parks saves about $35 over two single tickets.
The full fee schedule for Tsavo National ParksRates
On request. Exclusive use only, quoted per property per night for up to eight guests rather than per person. Conservation fees extra.
What the rate covers is not confirmed. We do not know yet whether meals, drinks and activities are included, so read this as the bed only.
Every figure on this page is in US dollars.
Indicative 2026 rates gathered in July 2026 from operators' own rate cards and the official KWS tariffs. Watch the pricing basis: most Tsavo camps quote per person per night sharing, while Serena, the KWS guest houses and the self-catering bandas quote per room or per unit, so two sets of numbers are not directly comparable. KWS conservation fees are extra almost everywhere at $80 per adult per park per day, plus KSh 600 for a car under six seats.