Tsavo West Special Campsites
Undeveloped exclusive-use campsites · Tsavo West, seven sites: Kudu, Little Royal, Simba, Palm Tree, Maji ya Chumvi, Kichwa Tembo and Pipeline · Kenya Wildlife Service
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Budget
Inside the park
Park-run (KWS)
Seven undeveloped sites scattered across Tsavo West, each taken for exclusive use by one party at a time. There are no facilities of any kind, the reservation runs through the park warden with a weekly site fee on top, and you carry your own water, fuel and food.
Why you'd pick it
- Seven sites, more than anywhere else in the Tsavo Conservation Area
- Exclusive use: your party has the site to itself
- Nothing provided at all, so full self-sufficiency is required
What's here
- Campsite
Arranged from the lodge:
- Guided walks
- Birding
Read from Tsavo West 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. Add a non-refundable KSh 10,000 per week reservation fee per site, plus 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.