Enjoy your first game drive upon arrival. Amboseli is a popular tourist destination and has a large concentration of wildlife. The park embodies five main wildlife habitats (open plains, acacia woodland, rocky thorn bush country, swamps and marshland) and covers part of a Pleistocene Lake basin, now dry. Amboseli is famous for its big game including large herds of elephants and its great scenic beauty. Mount Kilimanjaro broods high over Amboseli, generally cloaked by clouds but appearing in all its snow-shrouded magnificence from time to time. The mountain provides water for the park, wonderful views and, of course, the most glorious background for animal photography.

Mount Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano located in Tanzania but best viewed from Amboseli in Kenya. It is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest single free-standing mountain above sea level in the world.