The Lake Nakuru National Park

The Lake Nakuru is a salty lake, Its two-and-a-half-hour drive from Nairobi. It’s part of the Great Rift Valley, surrounded by wooded and bushy grassland, lies the beautiful Lake Nakuru National Park. The Park is the home of many wildlife animals and is filled with yellow-baked acacia trees.

What Lake Nakuru has that the other major parks don’t have is flamingos. It was a bird sanctuary before it became a National Park, the Lake is expansive that draws an immense quantity of birdlife.

Lake Nakuru National Park is Ideal for bird watching, hiking, picnic, and game drives.

During the game drive you can spot more than a dozen rhinos, lions, hyenas, cape buffaloes, Rothschild giraffes, zebras, Thompsons gazelle, baboons, flamingos, secretary birds, silver crown birds, sterling, Egyptian geese, and many other bird species.

To the West of the park lies a cliff which plays host to bush and scrub and a group of perplexing baboons. There are some tremendous lookouts on top of the cliff over the lake to watch the birds.

Visitors can go hiking, cycling and camping on Menengai crater an extinct volcano with a view of Lake Nakuru.