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User Reviews of Amboseli National Park (280 Reviews)

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Avatar icon D. Ex Ghana flag GH       Visited: August 2018 Reviewed: Aug 28, 2018

Email D. Ex  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

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Ambosseli, has lots of animal herds (zebras, elephants, wilderness,...). The elephants are particularly impressive from close. We saw a few birds and a lion family, in the end stole the show. Wish we had close access to the water points. We spotted some hippos from far, but couldn't be close enough. There's a lot of dust, especially hard when another car passed us by.
What we saw there was picturesque: I took national geographic-like pictures with my phone!

Female avatar icon Katie Tang Hong Kong flag HK       Visited: June 2018 Reviewed: Aug 7, 2018

Email Katie Tang  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

4 / 5 4 /5
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During our two days here, the park was a bit quiet. We see the usual, but not the big beast like lions etc. Though the bird scene here is amazing!

Female avatar icon Tobie Faith Gordon United States flag US       Visited: May 2018 Reviewed: Jun 8, 2018

Email Tobie Faith Gordon  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

4 / 5 4 /5
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Amazing views of Mt Kilimanjaro. However game was scarce and area was swampy. Very high mosquito bite eating.

Female avatar icon Theresa Coles United States flag US       Visited: April 2018 Reviewed: May 13, 2018

Email Theresa Coles  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

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Heavy rains had washed out some of the park roads right before we arrived so some of the park was flooded and animal viewing was not what it could have been.

Female avatar icon Kam United States flag US       Visited: September 2017 Reviewed: Oct 1, 2017

Email Kam  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

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Not as many animals as Masai Mara, different much drier terrain.

Male avatar icon David Australia flag AU       Visited: August 2017 Reviewed: Sep 2, 2017

Email David  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

4 / 5 4 /5
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This is a place that it worth to visit if you have some extra time.

Male avatar icon Rodgertm Canada flag CA       Visited: May 2017 Reviewed: Jul 18, 2017

Email Rodgertm  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Awesome experience!

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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!

Avatar icon Bryan H United States flag US       Visited: June 2017 Reviewed: Jun 28, 2017

Email Bryan H

The mountain makes this park!

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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!

Female avatar icon Gowri India flag IN       Visited: June 2012 Reviewed: May 22, 2017

Email Gowri  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

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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.

Female avatar icon oonat Kenya flag 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.

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My road research proved correct as there is only one road from Nairobi to Amboseli and that is the C103 off the A109 Mombasa Road. It was a smooth tarmac road offering fantastic views of the South Rift Valley. Amboseli itself is a compact park - easy to navigate and drive around - and it was the first of Kenya's game parks to actually offer me an illustrated map, which was really useful.

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.