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Imagine massive herds of elephants elegantly dotting on vast empty plains with a backdrop painting of the snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak. Amboseli National Park is unquestionably one of the most quintessential wilderness in Africa to watch wild game. Its popularity is only surpassed by Masai Mara. Amboseli’s main attraction is the big herds of elephants that roam the dusty plains in the morning and evening. The park’s elephants carry particularly impressive ivory and are very relaxed around cars.

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Amboseli National Park
Amboseli National Park is located in the south of Kenya on the Tanzania border, immediately northwest of Mt. Kilimanjaro and 140 miles (220 km) southeast of Nairobi. It’s one of Kenya’s top safari attractions, right after the Masai Mara National Reserve, synonymous with majestic herds of elephants and glorious views of Mount Kilimanjaro on the Tanzania side.
At dawn, as the cloud cover breaks and the first rays of sun illuminate the snowcapped 5,895-meter (19,340-foot) Kilimanjaro peak, the sky, colored by rosy pinks and soft reds, provides the perfect backdrop for the plains below. It gets even better at dusk when the mountain stands out in stark relief against the fiery sun.
Amboseli has five different habitats: open plains, acacia woodland, thorn scrub, swamps, and marshlands. To the west are the Ol Donyo Orok massif and Lake Amboseli, which is usually dry. But when the heavy rains return, the surrounding area becomes lush again and attracts back migratory birds. Expect some impassable roads during heavy rains and when the lake is completely dry because the fine alkaline dust that blows up from the lake bed is hell for tires. The salty dust is what the Maasai community calls Amboseli.
Amboseli National Park presents more great animals to watch on safari than just elephant herds, including zebra, warthog, giraffe, buffalo, hippo, impala, wildebeest, and baboons galore. Unusual antelopes roam its plains like the fringe-eared oryx and long-necked mini giraffe-like gerenuk. However, the rhino is extinct and your chances of seeing predators are not quite as good as in the Masai Mara.
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Maasai hunters once almost killed off Amboseli’s lions because they preyed on their herds of cattle. Still, after many years of tolerance from the local communities, populations have increased steadily, and lucky visitors may spot not only lions but hyenas, jackals, and cheetah, too.
If it’s elephants you’re after, then Amboseli should feature on your Kenya safari adventure. Perhaps the oldest and most studied elephant population in sub-Saharan Africa lives here. There are more than 1,200 of these great pachyderms today, and because they’re accustomed to visitors and vehicles, you’ll experience eyeball-to-knee-high close encounters.
→Birdlife is also prolific, with more than 420 recorded species. There are dozens of birds of prey, including more than ten different kinds of eagles. In the swamp areas, which are fed by the melting snow of Kilimanjaro, seasonal flamingo, pelican, and more than 12 species of heron are among the profusion of water birds.
→Game-viewing is best around Enkongo Narok, which means “black and benevolent.” This belt of swamps in the middle of the park is home to hippos, numerous birds, beds of papyrus and waterlilies, herbivores coming to drink, and elephants taking baths. At Observation Hill, the Amboseli landmark just to the west of Lake Kioko
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