Amboseli is the second most popular safari destination in Kenya, after Masai Mara. The park, located 240 km to the south east of Nairobi, spreads over an area of 392 km² and provides an extraordinary view of majestic Kilimanjaro (5895 m).

From dawn, when the sun lights up the snow-capped summit and floods the immense plain, the animals appear in their herds and transform it into a vast Garden of Eden.

The highest mountain in Africa dominates the Amboseli’s
landscape and has a major impact on its ecology.

A third of the park’s area is taken up with the basin of a dried lake which only fills up with water for a few days per year, in April.

Surrounding it the marshy lands with their luxurious vegetation and the savanna dotted with acacia trees contrast with this desert-like lake.

A large elephant population and around fifty other species of mammal can be found there : zebras, giraffes, gazelles, impalas, buffalo, hippopotamuses…

Many birds live in Amboseli: pelicans, kingfishers, royal cranes, storks and many types of eagles and vultures.

Amboseli park was immortalised in ‘The Lion’ by Joseph Kessel and inspired Ernest Hemingway to write ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’.