Lake Nakuru National Park
The world famous Lake Nakuru was created as a national park to protect its stunning flocks of lesser flamingo which literally turn its shores pink.
Its birdlife is rich: a beacon for leading ornithologists, scientists and wildlife film-makers. The park spans an attractive range of wooded and bush grassland around the lake, offering a wide ecological diversity, from lake water, woodland to rocky escarpments and ridges.
Notable game within the lake include the hippo and the diverse birdlife. 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's Giraffe, black and white Colobus Monkey are plentiful. The bushlands offer eland, warthog, impala, Mountain Reedbuck and dik dik, whilst rock hyrax and klispringer occupy the cliffs and escarpment.
Accommodation includes: two lodges (total 244 beds), K.W.S. Guest House, three special and two public campsites, self-help banda and four picnic sites within the park.
Central Kenya, the Highlands and the Great Rift Valley
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