{Amboseli National
Park 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, the highest free-standing mountain in the
world.
In Amboselis
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 Kilimanjaros 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 1990s ceaseless rain changed Amboseli into a swamp.
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