Amboseli national park is a 392 sq km wildlife area located some 280km south west of Nairobi and at the shadow of Mt Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. Best Amboseli day trip allows you to take great wildlife photography on an Amboseli national park day trip or a 2 days Amboseli overnight safari.
The Amboseli 1 day trip is a popular day trip from Nairobi city to see the great Mount Kilimanjaro with its ice capped peak Kibo. The views of Kili are best on the Kenyan side inside the Amboseli national park since you can take pictures of the wildlife with the mountain as your backdrop.
Amboseli National Park Day Trip itinerary
Amboseli national park day trip is a full-day visit to the second most popular park, the amboseli national park located at the foot of mt kilimanjaro.
The driver will pick you up at your Nairobi city hotel for the drive at 5:00am. Take the A109 Mombasa road for 2 hours up to Emali town where you branch off to the right into Loitoktok road C102 for 1.5hrs where to take a right turn into Amboseli. The turn off at Amboseli Junction to Erimito gate is 18km of unpaved road which can be rough at times. Arrive at Amboseli National Park at 8:30am and start your game drive all the while with Mt Kilimanjaro peak Kibo peaking through the white clouds into the blue space. You will enjoy a game drive in Amboseli seeing lions, elephants, hippos, buffalos, hyenas, giraffes, wildebeests, cheetahs, baboons, jackals, leopards, gazelles, impalas, and many more. After lunch you will enjoy a further 1 hour game drive as you exit the park for Nairobi at 3:00pm. Arrive in Nairobi at 6:30pm and drop off in your city hotel or at the airport for your evening flight back home.
