Amboseli National Park

Amboseli National Park offers one of Africa's most iconic views — large herds of elephants with their tusks silhouetted against the snow-capped summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. Situated in southern Kenya at the foot of Africa's highest peak, this relatively compact park is one of the best places in the world to get close to free-ranging elephants. Covering 392 square kilometres, Amboseli's diverse habitats include dried-up lake beds, wetlands fed by Kilimanjaro's underground springs, savannah, and woodlands. The Amboseli Elephant Research Project, running since 1972, has made these elephants among the most studied in Africa, with individual family histories spanning five decades.