Amboseli
Fly past the Majestic Kilimanjaro
Amboseli is 300 kilometers from the Swahili Safari Coast and seven
hours of hard road travel but only one hour by air with the chance
to view Majestic Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain. The
National park is long established and the most dramatic but also
one the smaller of Kenya’s wildlife parks. Wildlife is, however, very
concentrated and easily viewed, making this one of Kenya’s more
popular parks, especially with children.
Amboseli has a large population of wildlife, and is well known for its
Elephant herds and superb variety of birdlife. All of this makes for
a photographers paradise. Be prepared for dust and
heat. Because of its small size, we recommend a one night stay as
sufficient to enjoy this jewel of a park, unless you stay at a small
privately run luxury camp, in which case you may never want to
leave. Hemmingway found it hard to go.
An evocative place of harsh yet timeless beauty with constant
change and contrast, Amboseli is compressed within an area of
only 390 square kilometers. The park is a study of adjoining eco-
systems with lava rock thorn-bush country, open plains, swamps,
marshes, sulfur springs and Lake Amboseli, a dry salt pan that
occasionally turns into a rain filled lake during flooding. In recent
years a new lake, fed from a rising water table, appeared on the
central grass-plains complete with flamingos and other lake and
riverine bird species.
Amboseli lies north of the largest East African volcano…..Mt
Kilimanjaro ….and at the southernmost rangeland of Kenya’s
famous cattle ranching warrior tribe…the Maasai. During the dry
season long lines of Maasai cattle trail dust clouds as they
march in singe file across the dry lake bed. Such a scene,
shimmering in a heat haze with the snow of
Kilimanjaro soaring in a blue sky makes time stand still.
Amboseli is 300 kilometers from the Swahili Safari Coast and seven
hours of hard road travel but only one hour by air with the chance
to view Majestic Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain. The
National park is long established and the most dramatic but also
one the smaller of Kenya’s wildlife parks. Wildlife is, however, very
concentrated and easily viewed, making this one of Kenya’s more
popular parks, especially with children.
Amboseli has a large population of wildlife, and is well known for its
Elephant herds and superb variety of birdlife. All of this makes for
a photographers paradise. Be prepared for dust and
heat. Because of its small size, we recommend a one night stay as
sufficient to enjoy this jewel of a park, unless you stay at a small
privately run luxury camp, in which case you may never want to
leave. Hemmingway found it hard to go.
An evocative place of harsh yet timeless beauty with constant
change and contrast, Amboseli is compressed within an area of
only 390 square kilometers. The park is a study of adjoining eco-
systems with lava rock thorn-bush country, open plains, swamps,
marshes, sulfur springs and Lake Amboseli, a dry salt pan that
occasionally turns into a rain filled lake during flooding. In recent
years a new lake, fed from a rising water table, appeared on the
central grass-plains complete with flamingos and other lake and
riverine bird species.
Amboseli lies north of the largest East African volcano…..Mt
Kilimanjaro ….and at the southernmost rangeland of Kenya’s
famous cattle ranching warrior tribe…the Maasai. During the dry
season long lines of Maasai cattle trail dust clouds as they
march in singe file across the dry lake bed. Such a scene,
shimmering in a heat haze with the snow of
Kilimanjaro soaring in a blue sky makes time stand still.
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