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Kenya, East Africa

Amboseli National Park
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Park Highlights

Amboseli National Park embodies five main wildlife habitats: open plains; acacia woodland; rocky thorn bush; swamps and marshlands. The park also covers a part of the Pleistocene lake basin, now dry. Within this basin is the temporary Lake Amboseli that floods during heavy rainfall. Although a very dry and arid landscape, Amboseli is quite lush in places. The melting snows of Kilimanjaro flow underground into the park and continually feeds water to springs, swamps, and marshes providing a much needed lifeline.This fragile ecosystem displays an impressive wildlife variety, with more than 50 mammal species.

The best game viewing is in the eastern half of the park in the vicinity of Ol Tukai Lodge and lakes Engoni Naibor and Loginya. In the dry bush country towards Namanga you will find two interesting antelope - the fringe-eared oryx and the long-necked gerenuk.

Top Destinations in Amboseli National Park

We highly recommend Tortilis Camp This is a luxurious safari camp situated in the Amboseli National Park offering spectacular views of Kilimanjaro. It is a larger camp of 18 rooms, but it still offers a very personalised service. What we like about it that it is a faultless camp that sits in its own private consession. Here guests can easily access the Amboseli National Park, but also take bush walks and safari drives away from the crowds.

We also recommend the Amboseli Porini Camp. This is a smaller and more intimate safari camp offering a traditional bush-camp experience on the border of the Amboseli National Park. It is also situated in a private concession.

Game Viewing

The kings of the park are the elephants, which are present in large numbers. They are easy to spot and photograph due to the flat and naked terrain. Amboseli's elephants are said to be the biggest in Kenya and can be found in the swamps where they share the cool waters with the hippos that hide beneath the papyrus.

The park is also home to a large resident population of wildebeest, Burchell's zebra, Thomson's and Grant's gazelle, buffalo, warthog, impala, waterbuck, dik dik, Maasai giraffe and eland. Coke's hartebeest and white-bearded gnu are also commonly spotted on game drives. Vervet monkey and yellow baboon inhabit the scarce woodlands, mainly around Ol Tukai Lodge. Lion, spotted hyena, black-backed jackal, wild cat, bat- eared foxes and caracal are also found in Amboseli National Park. Leopards, cheetah and black rhino are quite rare.

Birdlife is abundant, especially near the lakes and swamps. The yellow weaver bird, Taveta golden weaver, Taita falcon, southern branded Harrier eagle and Superb starling are some of the resident birds found around the park. Observation Hill allows for an overall view of the park, especially the swamps and elephants.

What Sun Safaris Says

Amboseli park is famous its scenes of huge elephant herds with a dusty dry backdrop in the shadow of Mt Kilimanjaro. With its outstanding views and only ankle high vegetation covering the park, it is the best place in Africa to get close to free-ranging elephants among many other wildlife species. Amboseli was once a tree-clad savanagh, however due to environmental changes and a high number of elephants the trees have died and it is now almost a wetland reserve. This provides ideal conditions for a diverse range of birdlifed and is probably the best place in east Africa to watch inland water birds.

Comfortable

Amboseli Serena Lodge

Amboseli Serena Lodge is a large safari hotel situated within the Amboseli National Park. Popular with groups and families.

Ol Donyo Wuas Lodge

Ol Donyo Wuas Lodge is situated in the foothills of the Chyulu Range on the Mbirikani Group Ranch, a Maasai owned ranch that is located between the Amboseli National Park, Chyulu, Tsavo and Kilimanjaro National Parks.

Amboseli Porini Camp

Amboseli Porini Camp is situated in private conservancy near the northern boundary of Amboseli National Park. The camp has exclusive access to the conservancy and the local Maasai tribe.