LAKE NAKURU

Lake Nakuru forms the greater Lake Nakuru National Park and is one of the Great Rift Valley’s most famous soda lakes. The lake offers visitors the chance to witness one of the world’s most spectacular wildlife sights of the brilliant pink flamingos as far as the eye can see.

When conditions are right, between one and two million lesser and greater flamingos feed around the shores of the shallow lake that together with tens of thousands of other water birds within a species list of around 400 birds make the lake a genuine ornithologist’s – bird watching paradise.

Game viewing is also available after it was declared a national park in 1961. Lake Nakuru covers an area of about 180 km² and its diverse habitats are home to warthog, baboon, waterbuck and large numbers of impala. Slightly shyer residents include buffalo, Rothschild’s giraffe, eland, the occasional leopard and both black and white rhino. Hippo territory is located in the northern part of the lake.

Usually built into a longer Kenya safari itinerary, Lake Nakuru National Park is often combined with the other Great Rift Valley lakes like Lake Naivasha and other conservancies such as the nearby Aberdare National Park. It is worth noting that there are other times when the lake conditions change such as breeding and feeding when flamingos migrate on to other soda lakes.

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