A pair of elephants walking across the plains. This typical African landscape served detelón background to films like "Out of Africa " or " Mogambo " . It is a country of contrasts, where the traveler is transported to another bygone era. In the northwest end of Lake Amboseli is Meshanani Gate, the main entrance to Amboseli National Park coming from Nairobi. The lake is actually a vast dusty plain , for most of the year is dry . In these circumstances safari vehicles shorter way across the dry lake on its eastern side to win the skirt Kilimanjaro. Shortly after entering this arid bed , distinguished the bottom cut on the horizon the silhouettes of three giraffes . As we approach the 4x4, the reflex that often take the presence of the vehicle is standing still , motionless, with good stretched neck as if to show the nearly 6 meters high that can reach ( record of the animal world ) for thereupon a career with his comic stride . One of the most striking images in the first observations of giraffe ( Giraffa camelopardalis ) is his career. Is it more like a movie in slow motion, but with this tremendous stride progresses meters almost imperceptibly . In any case it is often quite comical running form these camelids. The neck of the giraffe , incidentally, is the same as that of humans and other mammals, with seven cervical vertebrae , although these are very elongated , giving it that unique length. Striking is also the position taken to drink , opening the front legs in a difficult balance to reach down and drink with his rough and very long tongue. It is a very delicate for them in that position because they are at the mercy of any predator and a fall time for any sudden movement would be fatal. Few animals make something as necessary as drinking water as dangerous and delicate time.