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Amboseli Travel Guide 🇰🇪 Amboseli is a one of the Amboseli Travel Guide 🇰🇪 Amboseli is a one of the most incredible places to visit in Kenya, but to enjoy a trip here you’ll need to understand a few essential things. That’s why I’ve compiled some of my learnings and tips for you. 📍Save this post for your next Kenya trip: Why to go? The main reason to visit Amboseli National Park is the incomparable density of elephants with intact herd structures including experienced matriarchs and some of the world’s last supertuskers. Another drawing point of Amboseli are the incredible views of Mount Kilimanjaro. While the mountain is located across the border in Tanzania, Amboseli has the best vistas of the world’s tallest free-standing peak from the Kenyan side. Where to stay There’s only three lodges and camps inside Amboseli National Park. Most of the other camps are located outside the Eastern Kimana gate and this is where Amboseli can become quite busy. I therefore highly recommend to stay in a camp inside the park. Elewana Tortilis Camp Personally my favorite place to stay is Elewana Tortilis Camp. Not just because of it’s location more to the West of Amboseli, but also for it’s access to the private Kitirua conservancy with the possibility to drive off-road. Another important factor is that Elewana has fully open Landcruisers for guests. In Amboseli you’ll see many safari vehicles with windows and pop-up roofs (as they have to drive in on public roads), but Elewana only has fully open vehicles. Later this year the brand new Kitirua Plains Lodge, an A&K Sanctuary property, will open in the Kitirua conservancy. This will be an interesting new addition to the park. The dry lake bed My favorite part of Amboseli is the dry lake bed. This seasonal lake dries up fully allowing for vehicles and wildlife to cross. Photographing elephants from low angles down on the ground is a true highlight! Best season to visit I’ve visited Amboseli at different times of the year, but the main season runs from June to October when it’s driest. In January and February there’s another dry period between the short and long rains, which I would also recommend. How to get there? I recommend taking a bush plane. #kenya #amboseli
Today, Jane Goodall would have been 92. And yet, Today, Jane Goodall would have been 92. And yet, somehow, she still feels profoundly present. In the forests she fought for, in the chimpanzees she gave a voice to, and in all of us who see the natural world a little differently because of her. There are people who change science. And then there are people who change hearts. Jane did both. She showed us that one person, with patience, compassion, and belief, can shift the way the world sees itself. Many of us found our path because of her. In her honor, we are naming April 3rd Goodall Day and launching The Nature of Hope, a global print collection created with the Jane Goodall Institute (@janegoodallinst) and @vital.impacts. This is a collective love letter from photographers around the world whose lives and work were shaped by Jane, carrying forward her mission to protect our planet and helping people reconnect and fall back in love with the natural world. The collection includes rare hand-signed prints by Jane herself, along with a powerful selection of iconic images from some of the world’s most celebrated photographers. Photos by: @britta.jaschinski.photography @kaigner @evgenia_arbugaeva @beverlyjoubert @rachelbigsby @marinacano @suzieszterhas @daisygilardini @janegoodallinst @ggkenya @thejunglechic @tiinaitkonen @amivitale One hundred percent of the profits from Jane’s signed prints will be donated directly to the @janegoodallinst. Proceeds from all other prints will support the Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots & Shoots program and @vital.impacts fellowships, helping to empower the next generation of people working to protect our planet. The sale opens today. Many of the prints are limited and will not be available again. Find all prints here: https://vitalimpacts.org #goodallday #natureofhope #earthmonth
Endless elephant encounters. I don’t think I have Endless elephant encounters. I don’t think I have ever posted so many elephants in a row, but that’s essentially the camera roll you come back with when you travel to Amboseli in Kenya 🐘🇰🇪✨ We had planned to focus fully on elephants during our four days here and we mostly stayed true to that mission (except for some short cheetah interruptions 😉). I didn’t count how many elephants we saw in total, but I would guess it must’ve been in the hundreds. And the encounters never ceased to amazed us. I always come back to one thought: What if we had megafauna like this roam around back home in Austria? How different would our life be, our landscape look, our ecosystem behave? #amboseli #kenya #elephant #wildlifephotography
Standing in the shadow of a giant. 🐘✨ In Amboseli Standing in the shadow of a giant. 🐘✨ In Amboseli we had the incredible honor of meeting TeeJay, one of the last remaining Supertuskers of Amboseli. Seeing those tusks sweep the earth is a reminder of what the world once looked like. With the recent passing of other legends like Craig, bulls like TeeJay are the final guardians of a rare genetic legacy. To be classified as a Supertusker, at least one tusk must weigh more than 100 lbs (45 kg) 🤯 Amboseli is world-renowned for its elephant population and especially for the few remaining supertuskers. However, the population is fragile. Following the natural passing of the legendary bull Craig early this year, every surviving tusker like TeeJay, Esau, and Vronsky becomes even more critical to the gene pool. These older bulls are the primary breeders. When a Supertusker is killed (whether by poaching or legal trophy hunting across the border in Tanzania), it doesn’t just remove one elephant—it removes the big tusk genes from the future of the species. We have to ensure their paths remain safe as they wander between Kenya and Tanzania and their legacy continues.
At the foothills of Mt. Kilimanjaro 🇰🇪 Kilimanjar At the foothills of Mt. Kilimanjaro 🇰🇪 Kilimanjaro is notoriously shy, often hiding behind a layer of clouds or haze, making it hard to photograph at times. But we were lucky and Kilimanjaro revealed itself every day during our stay in Amboseli. Usually the mornings provide the best chance to see the world‘s highest free-standing mountain. In the afternoon the clouds build up around the top, covering the snow covered peak (that is actually standing in Tanzania, but best seen from the Kenyan side in Amboseli). #amboseli #kilimanjaro #mountkilimanjaro #kenya
Elephants of Amboseli, Part 2. I will never get t Elephants of Amboseli, Part 2. I will never get tired of photographing and watching elephants. Their characters, social dynamics and emotional expressions make them fascinating subjects, but more than that, it makes us relate to them in a way akin to human connections. Therefore I also hope you won’t get tired of me sharing some of these touching moments spent with elephants. Today here’s a selection of some of the most incredible elephant encounters we had in Amboseli. Most of them photographed on the dry lake bed in the early morning or late afternoon hours, when we were there completely by ourselves, trying to figure out if all of this was truly real or just another mirage in the heat. Which one is your favorite? #amboseli #kenya
Elephants commute on Amboseli‘s dry lake bed 🇰🇪🐘 Elephants commute on Amboseli‘s dry lake bed 🇰🇪🐘 There is a specific kind of silence that only exists in the dust of Amboseli. Getting out of the car on the lake and lying down to watch the elephants crossing is one of the most reflective moments you can have. There’s nothing but the sound of the wind and sometimes the soft rumble of the matriarch vocalizing where to go to her herd. The name Amboseli actually comes from the Maasai word Empusel, which means „salty, dusty place“. And the dry lake bed is the icon, the symbol for it all. This vast pan is a remnant of a massive Pleistocene lake. Today, it only fills during the heavy long rains (that typically run from March to May), transforming from a cracked desert into a shallow, shimmering oasis. The ecology here is a delicate balancing act: It’s a landscape defined by transition—shifting from dust to water, and back again. When Lake Amboseli dries out, the survival of the ecosystem shifts. Water from the snows of Mt. Kilimanjaro filters through volcanic rock and emerges as permanent swamps on the Eastern side of lake Amboseli. And this is where elephants are headed for water. Throughout the day, the herds commute across the vast, cracked salt pans of the lake bed—a direct, open highway connecting their grazing plains on the Western side of the lake to the life-giving, spring-fed swamps in the East. They move with an ancient, quiet intelligence, following paths that have likely been walked by their ancestors for centuries. Watching them traverse is pure magic ✨ #kenya #amboseli #amboselinationalpark #elephants
Amboseli elephant magic 🐘 This ecosystem is one o Amboseli elephant magic 🐘 This ecosystem is one of the few places in Africa where the elephant age structure remains undisturbed, meaning we get to see Super Tuskers and massive family herds led by experienced matriarchs. In most parts of Africa, poaching and historical culling (managed thinning of herds) specifically targeted the largest elephants—usually the oldest matriarchs and the „Super Tusker“ bulls—because they carried the most ivory. This left many populations skewed and there aren’t many places where you can find super tuskers anymore. Amboseli is a rare time capsule. Because the Amboseli Trust for Elephants (@amboseli_trust) has been on the ground since 1972, they have a family tree for almost every elephant in the park. This constant human presence also acted as a massive deterrent to poachers during the ivory crises of the 70s and 80s. Founded by Cynthia Moss, this is the longest-running study of wild elephants in the world 🙌🏼 They’ve tracked over 3,000 individuals, giving us most of what we know about elephant social structure and brilliance. With the population currently thriving at over 1,900 individuals, Amboseli is a rare conservation success story! ✨ #amboseli #kenya
Touchdown in Amboseli, Kenya 🇰🇪 There’s complex Touchdown in Amboseli, Kenya 🇰🇪 There’s complex places in the world and Amboseli certainly is one of those. Fed by the subterranean meltwater of Kilimanjaro, Amboseli is home to massive swamps that serve as permanent lifelines in a sea of dust. The contrasts couldn’t be more stark. You can go from the dried out lake bed that seems like nothing could survive on it to emerald green swamps teeming with life within minutes in Amboseli. But the beauty hides a complex challenge: as the climate shifts and population grows, the pressure on the ecosystem intensifies. The Reality: The park itself is only 392 km2, but the wildlife relies on a surrounding area twenty times that size. Those critical wildlife dispersal areas and corridors are heavily fragmented—in terms of land ownership and economic uses—which creates massive challenges for conservation efforts. Large-scale agricultural developments (like avocado farming) are threatening to block elephant movement (and that’s just one of the challenges Amboseli is facing). The survival of Amboseli’s flora and fauna depends largely on the economic benefit-sharing with local communities. If the Maasai people—who have lived alongside these animals for centuries—cannot find a sustainable livelihood through conservation, the fences will continue to go up, and Amboseli as we know it might vanish. #amboseli #kenya
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