It’s A Long Way To Tipperary

We woke up at the absolute crack of dawn to try and get the most value for our 24 hour entry to the park. We weren’t planning to camp as it was crazy expensive, 25 USD per person, for non residents so we wanted to get into the park as early as possible.

We arrived at the gate bang on 7 o’clock and were disappointed to find that the entrance fees had risen above what we were expecting, no matter, we were here now!

We spent a great day splashing around the rather drenched Amboseli park. The park had been in drought for the previous4 years and had only had rain about a month before we arrived – from one extreme to another. We were wading through pot holes while looking at the carcasses of Elephants killed by the drought. After only a month of rain large parks of the flooded and everywhere was green – really hard to imagine what it would have been like during the drought.

We were really lucky with our animals, seeing LOADS of elephants, jackals, hyena and buffalo among other things.

We stopped at the lookout, one of the only raised places, for a lovely picnic organised by my darling sister.

We spent the rest of the afternoon driving around the park, stopping for some afternoon drinks in the posh lodge and most importantly chilling out in the lovely community campsite we found for only 5USD each because they thought were were residents!

We watched some elephants cross the road just as the sun set and made it back to camp just as it got dark.

I started a campfire while Dara cooked and we had an absolute fantastic night watching the bush TV and marvelling at the incredibly clear stars above our heads – BRILLIANT!! What a great way to end a really great day.

I just love game parks, seeing the huge herds walking across the plains is just a truely magical thing, I really don’t have the words to describe it! There’s something wonderful about being in a place where animals can experience at least a very poor version of what life was like before humans arrived and destroyed almost their entire habitat. I could spend a lot of time in Africas’ National Parks if they weren’t so damned expensive…