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Amboseli National Park :
National Park - 392 sq km - Managed by Kenya Wildlife Service
Amboseli is famous for its big game - elephants, lions and cheetahs are the main attractions - and
for its great scenery beauty.Amboseli embodies five main wildlife habitats, plus a generally dry lake-bed - Lake Amboseli.
These are open plains; extensive stands of yellow-barked acacia woodland; rocky, lava strewn thorn-bush country; swamps and
marshes; and at the western end of the reserve, above Namanga, the massif of Ol Doinyo Orok rising to over 2,760m (8.300ft)
and still for the most part zoologically unexplored.
The landscape is dominated by the glistening
majestic snow cap of Mount Kilimanjaro immediately to the south. One of the most popular national parks in Kenya, Amboseli
offers a wide range of accommodation: with four luxurious lodges inside the park; Amboseli new lodge, Ol Tukai lodge, Serena
lodge, Kilimanjaro lodge (total 602 beds) and a further two campsites. There are a number of small tented lodges just outside
the park boundaries (total 72 beds).
Main game viewing lies in the eastern
half of the park, in the vicinity of Ol Tukai lodge and lakes Engoni Naibor and Loginya. Leading here is a network of roads
and tracks. Game includes elephant, lion, leopard, cheetah, Maasai giraffe and buffalo. Also common game such as zebra, eland,
coke's hartebeest, white-bearded Gnu, waterbuck, Thomsons and Grant gazelle and impala. Black rhinos are seen though occasionally
as they are rare due to poaching in the mid-1970s.
In the dry bush country towards Namanga
you can find two interesting antelopes; the long -necked gerenuk (giraffe-necked antelope) and the fringe-eared oryx. In addition
are smaller animals such as; black faced vervet monkey and yellow baboon, black-backed jackals, spotted hyena and bat-eared
foxes which are often seen basking in the sun outside their dens.
Bird life is
in abundance especially near the lakes and swamps where you may find water birds. The Madagascar Squacco Heron shows up in
intervals and the long toed lapwing is a resident in small numbers. Yellow-throated, chestnut-bellied and black-faced, water
in hundreds during the dry season.Birds of prey include the six species of vultures, the Taita falcon and the Southern branded
Harrier eagle. Birds common around the lodges and camps are the yellow weaver bird, Taveta golden weaver and superb starling...
Climate: Hot and dry
Features
Lake Amboseli
,Mt Kilimanjaro ,Hills,Mt Meru ,Tourist-tolerant elephants ,Maasai culture and, indigenous lifestyle ,Year round springs,Waterholes,Mirages
in the dry season
Facilities
Lodges ,Campsites,Bandas ,Picnic sites ,Observation sites, Nature
trails ,Education centers ,Information centers ,shops
Activities:
Game Viewing, Bird watching,Hiking,Camping
,Picnic, Camel safaris, Lectures on maasai culture,
Climbs on Mt.Kilimanjaro,Interpretative trails,
Observation platforms, Visit to maasai homesteads
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