Elephants of Amboseli

Elephants of Amboseli

Yesterday we went on three different safari outings – sunrise, mid-day, and after dark – and we saw hundreds of elephants. Amboseli has 2500+ elephants in a relatively small area, and around every corner you'll see some. It's often a group of ten or twenty, and sometimes a solitary bull elephant. They may be frolicking in a stream or swamp, enroute to or from water or sleeping grounds, eating vegetation (which they do over 20 hours a day), or throwing dirt on themselves to cool off.

This post contains photos of some of the elephants we saw on our three safaris yesterday. I'm posting this separately from the full blog post about yesterday, while I have a few minutes before we check out and drive to Tsavo West National Park, our final destination of this trip. More to come.

Sunrise Tuesday at Amboseli National Park.
This massive bull elephant is near a group of females as well as another bull elephant. In these situations, the bull elephants extend their "fifth leg" (as the guides call it) to show off how big it is. Once you know to watch for this, it's interesting to see it get longer when they approach and then get shorter when they walk away.
A herd walking single file to a swampy area with water.