Amboseli National Park ©

The sun is coming up, 

giving us our first sight of Mount Kilimanjaro.

The snow-covered flat-top of Mount Kilimanjaro, located across the border in Tanzania, forms a memorable backdrop for the wonderful sights to be seen in Kenya's Amboseli National Park!

Amboseli's abundance of elephants is due to the constant tracking by reseachers over many years.  

As a result, the elephants of Amboseli have largely escaped the ravages of the 1980's poaching suffered elsewhere.

So we are seeing the bigger and older population of the elephant herds.  This guy is massive but it looks like it has been in a few fights to prove itself over the years.

And then it is time to move on.

There are so many elephants... 

Wet elephants, dry elephants and dusty elephants.  Huge elephants, young elephants, juvenile elephants and all the little baby elephants--all on the move!  

It looks like a wall of elephants!

These gentle giants move every afternoon across the savanna up into the hillside of Mount Kilimanjaro.

It is an amazing sight as they all start moving...

.....hurrying along with the dust flying everywhere, but.....

 .....some of them have to slow down a little.

This one was not so much in a hurry as it was interested in a dust bath.

The dusting starts off slowly but as the elephant gets its trunk in position--

watch out!  Good thing we can close the windows on our land-rover... 

This little family was so much fun to watch and to photograph.

Just so sweet to watch the babies try to hide. 

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