Average User Rating
Rating Breakdown
Write a User Review
David
AU
Visited:
August 2017
Reviewed: Sep 2, 2017
Email David | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
This is a place that it worth to visit if you have some extra time.
Isabella Ferrario
IT
Visited:
August 2017
Reviewed: Aug 28, 2017
Email Isabella Ferrario | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Rodgertm
CA
Visited:
May 2017
Reviewed: Jul 18, 2017
Email Rodgertm | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Awesome experience!
We stayed at Kimbo Safari Camp just outside the Park itself. Accomodations were in tents (my wife would say we were "Glamping"). Food was excellent buffet style meals. Our guide were the best, Bya our guide was very knowledgable in both wildlife and plantlife. He was also very helpful in setting up photos, he knew his stuff!
Bryan H
The mountain makes this park!
It would be hard to have a more picturesque park, Mt Kilimanjaro truly rises like an Empress over Amboseli! The wildlife is good, but the lack of rhinos and the African wild dog make this park less than idea for a perfect safari destination. The villages are starting to crowd onto the edges of the park which makes the bush vibe really lacking. It still is totally a must visit African location, but I wouldn't recommend in June, where the park gets very dusty and the cloud cover hides that spectacular mountain!
Volker
DE
Visited:
March 2017
Reviewed: Jun 5, 2017
Email Volker | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Unforgettable!
The visit at Amboseli was a part of a 5 day safari, including the two Tsavos and Amboseli.
As we drove into the park the Kilimanjaro put away his clouds and presented us his beauty. The next day, as we went away, the clouds came back :-)
Before entering the park we have seen the first animals - elephants and giraffes.
On the road to our lodge (the Ol Tukai Lodge) a lot of animals, zebras, gnus, hippos, elephants, buffalos and much more.
We had an afternoon safari at the first day and were able to see very many animals. A lot of elephants in the sump. Some giraffes. Lions unfortunately only far away.
But at the next day at the morning safari we had a lion family directly at the side of our car. Very impressiv.
We have been at Amboseli only a for some hours. But the big number of animals made this visit unforgettable.
A lot of beautiful pictures - with the Kili in the background.
Gowri
IN
Visited:
June 2012
Reviewed: May 22, 2017
Email Gowri | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amboseli is a great place to watch elephants, zebra and deer. Not such a great place for birding and hardly any big cats. But it's still worth a visit if you want to see huge herds of elephants in the backdrop of the lovely Kilimanjaro.
We didn't make it to the observation hill overlooking the marsh but we did see many elephants, lions and had our only sighting of hyenas.
JulieDin
BR
Visited:
March 2017
Reviewed: Mar 6, 2017
Email JulieDin | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Untouched Wildlife with Kilimanjaro as background: who could ask for more?
To summarize in two words: must go. Definitely so. This place is a painting, and elephants abound all year round, since Serengeti migration does not affect wildlife population and habits in this region. Being there, with so many creatures of God, helps us put things in perspective and is a humbleness lesson.
Magical
Amboseli national park is truly magical place to be. There plenty of wild animals to see including elephants, hippos, buffalos, zebra, wildebeests, variety of birds. In addition to this, you have the bonus of viewing the highest mountain in Africa, that is the Kilimanjaro. So really, everything its in the same location.
One thing though, most animals will only come out of their hiding during evening hours and early morning before it gets too hot.
oonat
KE
Visited:
October 2016
Reviewed: Nov 15, 2016
Email oonat | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Beautiful Kiliminjaro overlooking a small but wildlife-rich National Park teeming with beasts.
Barely through the gate and you see wildebeest and ostrich...then giraffe, impala and then a herd of elephants. I had a pass for 48 hours and the first day I drove one loop around the park concentrating on the animals - as Mount Kilimanjaro was typically shrouded in cloud for the day. There is usually only an hour at dawn and an hour at dusk when the peak is visible. True enough, the following morning it was clear at 6am but clouded over shortly after. On my third day of the trip, things were delightfully different. The peak stayed could-free until 8:30am which allowed me to re-enter
Read more
the park and take some coveted photographs of wildlife and mountain in harmony. This was definitely the highlight of the trip. Other Kenya parks are flat but Amboseli serves up Mount Kilimanjaro which actually ticks many travellers' life-ling ambitions - mine included.The accommodation, AA Lodge, was perfect - self-contained chalet / bandas are very private and quiet. It didn't matter to me that I was outside of the Park as my resident Park fee was valid for 48 hrs. The pool was essential; it was so dry and hot that the dip in the water was a necessity. There were very few guests and the food was plain but the service was faultless. Such friendly staff.
