The Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of man-eating male lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya, which were responsible for the deaths of many construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway between March and December 1898. While the terrors of man-eating lions weren't new in the British public perception, the Tsavo Man-Eaters became one of the most notorious instances of dangers posed to Indian and native African workers of the Uganda Railway. They were eventually killed by Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson, who wrote his account of his hunting experience in a semi-biography The Man-Eaters of Tsavo.
Today, the Tsavo Man-Eaters are some of the most widely studied man-eating pantherine cats given their behavior of hunting humans as a pair as well as dental injuries reported in one of the lions, a cause commonly attributed to big cats turning to humans as prey.
Your journey to explore these Man Eaters begins in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. you’ll arrive at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi where you will transfer to Wilson Airport and board a small private aircraft to transit to Finch Hattons Camp in Tsavo National Park.