Southern Tsavo East Special Campsites
Undeveloped exclusive-use campsites · Tsavo East, southern sector: Lugards, Epiya Chepeyo, Mbololo, Durusikale and Thabagunji · Kenya Wildlife Service
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Budget
Inside the park
Park-run (KWS)
Five undeveloped campsites in the southern sector, including one near Lugard's Falls, each taken for exclusive use by a single party. Booking runs through the park warden in advance and you must be entirely self-sufficient, water included.
Why you'd pick it
- Five sites spread across the busier southern half of the park
- Lugards sits near the falls on the Athi-Galana-Sabaki
- Exclusive use, so no neighbours whatever the season
What's here
- Campsite
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Guided walks
Read from Southern Tsavo East Special Campsites's own website in July 2026. Anything not listed we could not confirm, which is not the same as it being absent.
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
From $35 pppn. Camping fee per person per night: $35 adult and $20 child for non-residents, KSh 250 and 200 for East African citizens, KSh 350 and 250 for Kenya residents. Plus a non-refundable KSh 10,000 per week reservation fee per site, and conservation fees.
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.