The best place to view a large herds of elephants up close with the best view of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak is Amboseli National Park. The name Amboseli comes from a Maasai word meaning “salty dust”. The protected area is home to African bush elephant, Cape buffalo, impala, lion, cheetah, spotted hyena, Masai giraffe, Grant's zebra, and blue wildebeest. It is also home to over 400 birdlife species like the globally threatened Madagascar pond-heron, lesser flamingo, lesser kestrel, shoebill, pelicans, crakes, kingfishers and over 40 types of raptors.
Nature lovers can explore different habitats like the dried up bed of lake Amboseli, the wetlands with Sulphur springs, the savannah and woodlands. The best view point Observation Hill allows one to view the entire park especially the swamps that hosts the elephants, buffalos, hippos, Egyptian goose and the pelicans.
