# Amboseli National Park

- Link: https://adelikenyasafaris.com/4335-2-2/
- Published: 2015-03-27T15:09:17+03:00
- Author: Adeli Kenya Safaris Limited

[Amboseli National Park](https://adelikenyasafaris.com/kenya-safaris/amboseli-national-park-kenya-safari-tours/)
is located in Loitoktok District, Rift Valley Province of Kenya. The park is 39,206
hectares (392 km2; 151 sq. mi) in size at the core of an 8,000 square kilometres(
3,100 sq. mi) ecosystem that spreads across the Kenya-Tanzania border. The park 
is famous for being the best place in Africa to get close to free-ranging elephants
among other wildlife species. Other attraction of the park includes opportunities
to meet the Maasai people and also offers spectacular views of [Mount Kilimanjaro](https://adelikenyasafaris.com/destinations/tanzania-safari-tours/mount-kilimanjaro-climbing-tanzania-adventure-safari-tours/),
the highest free-standing mountain in the world. In Amboseli’s case it is big skies
and far horizons combined with swampy springs and dry and dusty earth trampled by
hundreds of animals. Amboseli has an endless underground water supply filtered through
thousands of feet of volcanic rock from Kilimanjaro’s ice cap, which funnel into
two clear water springs in the heart of the park. However, the climatic pendulum
can swing from drought to flood, and in the early 1990’s ceaseless rain changed 
Amboseli into a swamp. A few years later the rains failed and the grass-covered 
plains turned to dust.