Amboseli Game Park

We passed through Amboseli Game Park on our way to and from Loitokitok (where there is a large TB hospital and manyatta). Pehninah has a niece that lives in the park and works with Cynthia Moss, who is to the elephants like Diane Fosse was to the gorillas. Her niece put us up in the van driver's quarters for the night (there are some huge, glamorous and ioncredibly expensive lodges there but they were not to be for us) and talked about her work there in the park. Basically they follow the elephants around all day (Amboseli is one of the best parks for elephants in Africa). studying their habits and patterns and they know all 1,300 someodd of their names. Pretty neat stuff. We were hoping to be able to go for a game drive with the niece or one of her coworkers however two of the elephants decided to have a battle and one got seriously injured prompting an elephant emergency. Both times we passed through the park however it was dusk and we got to see herds of the beautiful elephants, some hyeenas, buffalo, ostrich, and antelopes galore. I was sad because we hadnt actually seen any ostriches running around so Paul was gracious enough to hop out of the van and chase them with a stick. It was grand.