Sarova Salt Lick Game Lodge (also marketed today as Salt Lick Safari Lodge) is built almost entirely on stilts within the Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary, between Tsavo East and Tsavo West National Parks. Its round, hut-shaped rooms are raised above the ground on elevated walkways overlooking waterholes and salt licks that draw wildlife into camp, with an underground tunnel giving a rare eye-level view of animals at the water’s edge.
Around 96 stilt-mounted, hut-shaped rooms connected by elevated walkways, each overlooking one of the property’s floodlit waterholes.
A main dining room and bar serve full-board meals, with a swimming pool and sundowner terrace overlooking the surrounding sanctuary.
Game drives across the Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary and into neighbouring Tsavo, waterhole-watching directly from the room walkways, and time in the underground viewing tunnel.
Tsavo’s red-earth elephants are a signature sighting here, drawn along with buffalo, zebra and a wide range of plains game to the floodlit waterholes directly beneath the lodge.
The underground tunnel gives a genuine water-level vantage on visiting wildlife, a different register from both the elevated walkways above and the standard vehicle-based game drive.
The lodge sits within the privately managed Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary, whose fees support habitat management and anti-poaching work across the sanctuary bordering Tsavo’s two national parks.
To arrange a tailor-made journey to this lodge, speak with your Kipekee Journey Lead.
