About this guide
Who's behind Visit Amboseli?
One small park, a great many wrong numbers online. We work from the Kenya Wildlife Service fee card, the gazette and the researchers who count the elephants.
Who writes this
This guide is written by someone who overlanded much of Africa in his own Land Cruiser with a rooftop tent, and for whom the national parks were what stayed. The information about them online was usually missing, wrong or years old: fees from three tariff sheets ago, camps that had closed, roads described by people who had never driven them.
So he started writing it down properly. This guide runs on the park authority's own documents, on measured rainfall rather than brochure weather, and on what the camps publish themselves, with a date on every claim.
What this site is, and what is not for sale
An independent guide to Amboseli National Park and the conservancies around it. We do not sell safaris and we are not an agent for any lodge. Listing a camp is free, and no position on any page can be bought.
The site is paid for by a small number of outbound links that earn a commission when someone books through them, and those links are marked. They change neither the order of a list nor a single figure. Every outbound lodge link is nofollow, so a listing here is information, not a traded favour.
Where our numbers come from
Fees come from the KWS Conservation Fees card in force since 1 October 2025 and the regulation behind it, Legal Notice No. 160 of 2025. That matters here more than in most parks: a large share of the web still quotes $100 for Amboseli, a seasonal rate from a 2023 regulation that the High Court quashed in August 2024. The fee is $90.
Elephant numbers come from the Amboseli Trust for Elephants' annual report for 2025, which counted 2,065 known individuals, not from the 1,500 that many pages still repeat. Rainfall comes from 25 years of measurements at the Amboseli research station, about 350 mm a year, because the gridded climate models put several times that much on the park. Where an authority publishes nothing, the page says so and quotes no number.
Other parks we cover
We publish independent guides to a number of Africa's parks, from Tsavo and Samburu in Kenya to Moremi in Botswana and Kidepo in Uganda. They share a method, not a sales funnel. Found something out of date here? Tell us and it changes the same week.