Lake Nakuru National Park – Day trip
Depart Nairobi for the lake Nakuru National Park very early in the morning. The driving time is 3 hours.
On arrival, commence your game viewing drive around the park. Lake Nakuru National Park lies at the floor of the Great Rift Valley surrounded by wooded and bushy grassland.
Enjoy the wide ecological diversity and varied habitats that roam from Lake Nakuru itself to the surrounding escarpment and picturesque ridges. The ecosystem is ideal for bird watching, hiking, picnic and game viewing drives.
The 40 square kilometer alkaline Lake Nakuru lies within the park and has been given the conservation world’s Ramsar Site designation.
As you move further afield into the woods, you find black and white colobus monkeys and closer to the escarpment walls and rocky ridges, mountain reedbuck, dik-dik, rock hyrax and klipspringer, making game viewing nice.
The Park hosts Rothschild Giraffe, the black and white rhino. Lions, waterbuck, buffalo and baboons are all residents here. Variety in its landforms – rocky escarpments, thick acacia forests and waterfalls. You may spot lion, leopard, buffalo, rhino, pelicans and flamingoes.
You will have lunch in one of the hotel establishments inside the park. In good time exit the Park for the drive back to Nairobi and are dropped off at your City Hotel.
Lake Nakuru National Park: Full-Day Tour
Enjoy a full-day tour of Lake Nakuru National Park, home to one of the most remarkable wild bird populations in all of Africa. Get up close with the wildlife on a game viewing drive and be on the lookout for the park’s amazing flamingos.
One Day Lake Nakuru Safari
Located just a 2-3-hour drive from Nairobi, Lake Nakuru National Park is the perfect choice for those wanting a safari when time is limited.
Once home to Kenya’s famous flamingo flocks, the park is now most famous for its large herds of buffalo, the presence of four of the Big Five, and its larger than average populations of rhinoceros.
A scenic park bordering Lake Nakuru, it’s a fun day trip from the city.
1 Day Lake Nakuru National Park from Nairobi
Lake Nakuru National Park is known as an ornithological paradise by birdwatchers.
The Lake is world famous as the location of the greatest bird spectacle on earth which boasts anywhere between one and two million lesser and greater pink flamingos that feed on the abundant algae thriving in the lake’s warm waters.
A day trip to Lake Nakuru National Park offers a well worth while wildlife experience. The park boasts a large population of Rhino, Lion, Giraffe, Buffalo, Leopard, Water buck as well as many other species of game.
Also, one of the most promising parks to see rhino and leopard This is a daily excursion safari.
A Day Trip to Lake Nakuru National Park 2024