Amboseli National Park

Altitude: 3,900 to 4,500 feet above sea level.

Area: 392 square kilometers

Airstrips: Amboseli and Kilimanjaro Buffalo Lodge.

Opened: April 1948

Activities: Game Drives, Contemporary Maasai Culture.

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Amboseli is a place of stark contrast. Meaning “salty dust” in Maasai. Amboseli, despite its sometimes dry and dusty appearance, has an endless supply of water filtered through thousands of feet of volcanic rock from Mt. Kilimanjaro’s snow melt. These underground streams converge into clear fresh water springs in the heart of the park.

The powder like dust is volcanic ash, which was thrown from Kilimanjaro a millennia ago. An amazing spectacle of Amboseli is the shimmering dry lake bed where false mirages of populated horizons, punctuated by real herds of zebra and gnu hover in front of you.

The main attraction of Amboseli is it’s vast herds of elephant within the park. The bull elephants here have some of the largest tusks in Kenya.

Early morning and late afternoon photographic opportunities are incredible, with plentiful game and Mt. Kilimanjaro (the highest freestanding mountain in the world) providing an impressive and majestic backdrop.

Amboseli is one of the most popular game parks in Kenya and has a number of lodges and a tented camp providing various standards of accommodation both inside and out of the park.