Dust devils and elephants, the magic Amboseli lives on

A herd of elephants viewed from Oltukai lodge at the Amboseli Game Reserve. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Amboseli can be dusty. Sometimes, the dust forms whirlwinds 100 metres high. They call them dust devils but there is nothing evil about them. These whirlwinds are so spectacular and part of the landscape that whoever coined the name Amboseli must have had them in mind — the place of salty dust.

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