Lake Nakuru National Park
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Nakuru National Park is situated in central Kenya in Nakuru
district of the Rift Valley Province, around 140 km northwest of
Nairobi and covers an area of 180 square kilometers (69.5 square
miles). The park comprises of the large, shallow lake (about a
third of the National Park), fringed by alkaline swamps and
surrounded by mainly wooded and bushy grasslands as well as dry
savannah.
Lake Nakuru National Park is world famous it's huge numbers of
pink flamingo, both greater and lesser flamingo, often more than
a million individuals. From one of the view points (Lion
hill, Baboon cliff or Out of Africa) the flamingoes look like an enormous
pink living shawl wrapped around the edge of the lake. Other birds found
in Lake Nakuru National Park in large numbers are great
white and pink-backed pelicans, cormorants, stilts, avocets,
ducks, spoonbills, storks, herons and kingfishers. Further
African fish eagle, martial eagle and verraux eagle.
Lake Nakuru National Park is home to the black and white
rhino, buffalo, large herds of waterbuck (both Kenyan species),
zebra, different kind of gazelle and antelope, warthog, hippo
and the rare Rothschild giraffe, translocated for safety from
western Kenya in 1977. Among the predators are lion, cheetah and
leopard. Lake Nakuru National Park can
be visited all year round.
2 Days, 1
Night Lake Nakuru Kenya Safari from Nairobi
3
Days, 2 Nights Safari from Nairobi to Lake Nakuru and Lake
Naivasha, Kenya
4 Days 3 Nights Nairobi safari to Lake Nakuru and Masai Mara
6 Days Nairobi Safari to Lake Nakuru, Lake Naivasha and Masai
Mara Safari
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