Tag: elephants

Elephants of the Masai Mara: Big Tuskers, Breeding Herds & Best Viewing

Elephant tusker grazing on open grassland in Masai Mara

The elephants of Masai Mara country move through the reserve like grey weather systems — matriarch-led families of a dozen, bulls the size of safari trucks, calves hurrying in the herd’s moving shade. The greater Mara ecosystem holds thousands of elephants, and unlike the migration they are here every month of the year, threading between […]

Tsavo Safari Guide: Red Elephants, Wild Plains & Mzima Springs

Red dust-covered elephants in Tsavo National Park, Kenya

This Tsavo safari guide takes you into Kenya’s largest and wildest protected area — a vast, untamed landscape split into Tsavo East and Tsavo West. Famous for its dust-red elephants, raw open plains and dramatic volcanic scenery, Tsavo offers a more rugged, uncrowded safari than the busier parks, just inland from Kenya’s coast. From the […]

Mount Kenya Wildlife Guide: Forest Elephants, Colobus & Alpine Ecology

Family herd of elephants walking together across the Kenyan savanna

Mount Kenya’s wildlife spans five altitude zones from highland savannah to permanent glacier — forest elephants in bamboo, colobus monkeys in the cedar canopy, eland above 4,000 m, and giant lobelias that look like they belong on another planet. Kenya’s most overlooked wildlife ecosystem.

Amboseli National Park Guide: Elephants & Kilimanjaro Views

Safari guests watching elephants in Amboseli with Mount Kilimanjaro rising behind the plains

Amboseli National Park delivers Africa’s most iconic wildlife image: enormous elephant herds with Mount Kilimanjaro rising snow-capped behind them. This is your complete Sense of Adventure guide to Kenya’s most photogenic safari destination.