What to Do

Safaris
The Conservancy shares an un-fenced boundary with the world renowned Tsavo East National Park and is home to many wonderful but endangered and threatened species. The beautiful Lali Hills and the meandering Galana River dominate the rugged landscape and offer a magnificent glimpse of the real Kenya. With the unfortunate exception of rhino our visitors can expect to encounter all the wonderful wildlife associated with East Africa. In addition to the larger mammals there is an unsurpassed and really exceptional wealth of bird-life. Whatever your passion is, whether wildlife or wilderness, excitement or relaxation, you will find a place with us.
Sun Downers
After a long afternoon of straining your eyes to spot that elusive leopard within the conservancy boundaries, why not enjoy a cold tusker ‘Kenyan local brew’ whilst watching the sun go down from poachers point (top of the lali hills).  "Everything the light touches is ours," so please help us preserve it.
Bird Watching
  
 GALANA CONSERVANCY BIRD LIST
The following birds have been identified within a 1km radius of the camp, on the river banks and in the Galana Conservancy.
  1. Yellow-Billed Stork
  2. Woolly-Necked Stork
  3. African Spoonbill
  4. Hadada Ibis
  5. Sacred Ibis
  6. Grey Heron
  7. Green-Backed or Striated Heron
  8. Hamerkop
  9. Great Egret
  10. Yellow-Billed or Intermediate Egret
  11.  Pink-Backed Pelican
  12.  Egyptian Goose
  13.  White-Faced Whistling Duck
  14.  Somali Courser
  15.  Stone Curlew or Eurasian Thick-Knee
  16.  Water Thick-Knee
  17.  Senegal Plover
  18.  Spur-Winged Plover
  19.  Blacksmith Plover
  20.  Black-Headed Plover/Lapwing
  21.  Crowned Plover
  22.  Three-Banded Plover
  23.  Common Sandpiper
  24.  Common Greenshank
  25.  Black-Winged Stilt
  26.  Crested Francolin
  27.  Black-Faced Sandgrouse
  28.  Helmeted Guineafowl
  29.  Vulturine Guineafowl
  30.  Crested Bustard
  31.  White-Bellied Bustard
  32.  Common Ostrich
  33.  Somali Ostrich
  34.  Palm Nut Vulture
  35.  Ruppell’s Griffon Vulture
  36.  Lappet-Faced or Nubian Vulture
  37.  Bateleur
  38.  Tawny Eagle
  39.  African Harrier-Hawk
  40.  Bat Hawk
  41.  Black-Shouldered Kite
  42.  Peregrine Falcon
  43.  Shikra or Little- Banded Goshawk
  44.  Pygmy Falcon                                                                                        
  45.  Pearl-Spotted Owlet
  46.  African Scops Owl
  47.  African Orange-Bellied Parrot
  48.  African Green Pigeon
  49.  Laughing Dove
  50.  Mourning Dove
  51.  Ring-Necked Dove
  52.  Emerald-Spotted Wood Dove
  53.  Namaqua Dove
  54.  White-Browed Coucal
  55.  Slender-Tailed Nightjar (nocturnal with a call sounding like a car alarm or    small generator lasting for a few minutes)
  56.  African Palm Swift
  57.  Wire-Tailed Swallow
  58.  Blue-naped Mousebird
  59.  Speckled Mousebird
  60.  Grey-Headed Kingfisher                                        
  61.  Pied Kingfisher
  62.  Malachite Kingfisher
  63.  Somali Bee-Eater
  64.  Carmine Bee-Eater
  65.  European Bee-Eater
  66.  White-throated Bee-Eater
  67.  Blue-Cheeked-Bee-Eater
  68.  Little Bee-Eater
  69.  Broad-Billed Roller
  70.  Lilac-Breasted Roller
  71.  Eurasian Roller
  72.  Rufous-Crowned or Purple Roller                                                   
  73.  Green Wood-Hoopoe
  74.  Abyssinian Scimitarbill
  75.  Red-Billed Hornbill
  76.  Eastern Yellow-Billed Hornbill
  77.  Von der Decken’s Hornbill
  78.  African Grey Hornbill
  79.  Nubian Woodpecker
  80.  Golden Pipit
  81.  African Pied Wagtail
  82.  Red and Yellow Barbet
  83.  Common/African Bulbul
  84.  Northern Brownbul
  85.  Golden-Breasted Starling
  86.  Magpie Starling
  87.  Superb Starling
  88.  Hilderbrandt’s Starling
  89.  Fischer’s Starling
  90.  Wattled Starling
  91.  Eurasian Golden Oriole
  92.  Black-Headed Oriole
  93.  Common Drongo
  94.  Slate-Coloured Boubou
  95.  Black-Backed Puffback
  96.  Grey-Headed Bush-Shrike
  97.  Sulphur-Breasted or Rosy-Patched Bush-Shrike
  98.  Three-Streaked Tchagra
  99.  White-Crested Helmet-Shrike
  100.  Rufous Bush Chat
  101.  Spotted Morning Thrush
  102.  Common Rock Thrush
  103.  White-Browed Scrub Robin
  104.  Spotted Flycatcher
  105.  Grey Spotted Flycatcher
  106.  Southern Black Flycatcher
  107.  Grey-Backed Camaroptera
  108.  Northern Crombec
  109.  Pale Prinia
  110.  Variable Sunbird
  111.  Black-Bellied Sunbird
  112.  Purple-Banded Sunbird
  113.  Collared Sunbird
  114.  Grey-Headed Sparrow
  115.  Yellow-Spotted Petronia
  116.  White-Browed Sparrow-Weaver
  117.  White-Headed Buffalo-Weaver
  118.  Red-Billed Buffalo-Weaver
  119.  Red-Billed Quelea
  120.  Golden Palm Weaver
  121.  Black -Headed Weaver
Night Game Drives
The luxury of being in a Conservancy is that night game drives are permitted under certain conditions. At night this area has a diverse amount of nocturnal animals, such as the stripped hyena, aardvark, porcupine, white tailed mongoose, African wildcat, genet cats and the elusive aardwolf. However be aware that you must exit the conservancy by 8pm,
At A Glance
  • See our 'big tusker' elephants in The Galana Conservancy
  • Spot the nocturnal animals, including Aardwolf, striped Hyena, Bat eared foxes and many others.
  • Visit the newly improved school thanks to Friends From Ireland and the dispensary that assists the hundreds of people otherwise without medical aid.
  • Experience true Africa, wild, arid and very real!
When To Go
There’s a reason Kenya’s big cats take time out during the middle of the day – it’s boiling. In February and March you’re looking at temperatures of around 30°C and up. Wind back to November, or forward to June, and days are a bit milder. Or, make a beeline for the coast – it’s still between 27°C and 31°C all year round, but coastal breezes take the edge off. The main rainy season in Kenya is from the end of March ‘til May. It’s not constant downpours, though – expect blue skies and sunshine, with about an hour or two of rain each day. October and November also see a fair bit of rain, but, again, it usually comes in short, sharp bursts.