Amboseli day 12-14
January 27, 2020
Amboseli is known as the land of the gentle giants, known for the large free-range
families of elephants that live in this area. And it did not disappoint! Amboseli is
bordered by Mt. Kilimanjaro which is on the Tanzania side of the border but it is a
giant that you can see from just about anywhere in the park. When first entering the park our guide told us to look outside the window, when we couldn't see what he was talking about he told us above the clouds. Once we looked up we were greeted with Mt Kilimanjaro skyscraping over the clouds.
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Our original tour consisted of going to Tsavo, Amboseli, Devils Canyon, Lake Naivasha, Lake Nakuru and Masi Mara. Driving from the coast to Nairobi in 6 days, we were talking to our guide about how much my sister loved elephants and how we were so excited we got to see so many. He asked us if we wanted to spend another night in Amboseli since we had already been to the lakes at the beginning of our trip. We quickly agreed and we went back to the hotel for the night.
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We decided to spend all of the next day in Amboseli, getting to see Mt Kilimanjaro again without much cloud coverage. We didn't go out first thing like we would of wanted due to waiting for our guide again. However we still got to see a lot of animals when we did go out. Starting off with a lone cheetah that was hunting, lots of baboons and antelopes. This is where we got to see the We got to see hyenas and buffalo too and fallowed another family of elephants around.
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We stayed out tell a little after noon, tell it got hot out and it was harder to see any animals. That and my knee was really hurting, so we went back to the hotel.
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Kori Bustard
Ambiselli introduced us to animals we hadn't seen yet on our trip. One being the worlds second heaviest flying bird! With the males growing as tall as 4.5 feet tall they weigh up to 45 pound! And in order for them to ply their wing span can extend out to 9 feet wide!
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Elephant Family
At the start of the day the matriarch of the elephant family leads the herd to the watering hole for the day, then at the end of the day she brings them back to the safety and shade of the forest. We got to the park just as the elephants were starting to make their trip back. Our guide was really good at being able to anticipate what the elephants might do, either cross the road at a particular area or wait for the younger ones to join them. This journey must take a lot out of them, for even after spending all day at the little lake they all had to stop right next to our van in order to drink and splash some in the deep puddles along the road.
Enameshera observation hill
For lunch we got a baged lunch from the hotel, we got to take ours up to the top of Enameshera observation hill. On the way up we passed a little river where there were hippos outside of the water grazing during the middle of the day! The hike up wasn't bad, slightly steep but not hard to get up. The observation center had information all around the walls talking about Kenya and its animals. While we were up there we were greeted by a cute little yellow bird who was very heath conscience and didn't want the bread we offered it. We saw this as the perfect spot to spread the rest of my sisters ashes, over looking the park and being able to be around the elephants and all the other animals in this amazing park.
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