Lake Nakuru National Park

Altitude: 4,000 to 5,770 feet above sea level.

Area: 188 square kilometers.

Airstrips: Naishi Airstrip.

Opened: June 1968

Activities: Game Drives, Rhino Sanctuary and bird life.

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Lake Nakuru is world famous for flamingos, and was created a National Park to protect, its stunning flocks of lesser flamingo which literally turn its shores pink. Its birdlife is world-renowned: a beacon for leading ornithologists, scientists and wildlife filmmakers. The park spans an attractive range of wooded and bush grassland around the lake, offering wide ecological diversity, from Lake Water, woodland to the rocky escarpment and ridges.

Notable game within the lake includes hippo and clawless otters. On the shores roam waterbuck, Bohor’s Reedbuck and Zebra. The woodlands and forest are now home to both black and white rhino. In 1987 only two black rhino remained following the ravages of poaching. By creating a rhino sanctuary within the park and reintroducing a breeding herd from Laikipia, the KWS has now successfully re-established rhino in the park.

Game viewing is relatively easy: buffalo, leopard, lion, Rothschild Giraffe, White and Black Colobus monkey are plentiful in the forest. The bush lands offer eland, Steinbok, impala, Chandler’s Reedbuck and dik dik, whilst rock hyrax and klipspringer occupy the cliffs and escarpment.

Accommodation includes: Lake Nakuru Lodge (68 rooms) and Sarova Lion Hill Lodge (67 rooms), K.W.S. Guest House, five campsites, self-help banda and two picnic sites: Makalia Falls and Njoro River Mouth.