Best Places to See Elephants in Kenya – Wild Travel Safaris & Adventure

Best Places to See Elephants in Kenya 🐘

Seeing the BIG 5 in Kenya 🇰🇪 is top of most people’s bucket lists and a trip to Kenya wouldn’t be complete without seeing the largest land mammals on earth- the elephants 🐘!! with a top shout to these Best Places to See Elephants in Kenya.

Here are some of the Best Places to See Elephants in Kenya 🐘 🇰🇪:

✅ Amboseli National Park

– Located in the southeast with views of the beautiful Kilimanjaro mountain- it doesn’t get much better! The park is famous for its large herds of elephants and because of the openness of the park, they are easy to spot in the grassy plains!

You will notice the size difference in the elephants here compared to the Maasai Mara and parks further north!

✅ Maasai Mara

It is the most famous national park in Kenya 🇰🇪 and probably the park containing the largest amount of elephants 🐘 . The best part about this park is that the guides can go off-road, meaning you can get up close and personal with the elephants 🐘.

✅ David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (sanctuary) in Nairobi.

This sanctuary allows you to have a close encounter with the rescued elephants at the orphanage and learn about how they protect and rehabilitate them before releasing them back into the wild.
This a great cause to support! ❤️

✅ Murchison Falls and Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda.

Murchison Falls National Park and Queen Elizabeth Park are the Oldest National Parks in Uganda and have Primarily enabled having lots of crowds and herds of Elephants. It’s one of the best places to see elephants in Africa and Uganda, adding to the above sights of Kenya too. Let’s not forget Kidepo National Park which lies in the North East of Uganda on the border of South Sudan and Kenya.