Lake Nakuru National Park

Lake Nakuru, a shallow and alkaline lake on the bed of the Great Rift Valley, has earned its fame as the home of the greatest bird spectacle in the world – flocks of often more than a million pink flamingos which seasonally use its waters to feed on the abundant algae which thrive in its shallow warm waters. It lies 156kms (100miles) from Nairobi by road. Although the flamingo is the most obvious, other inhabitants of the alkaline lake include Black-winged stilts, avocets and in the European winter a mass of ruffs.

Lake Nakuru National Park has a great deal to offer. Beside its magnificent bird life, it is also a rhino sanctuary and one of the best places in the country to see both black and white rhino. The park is also host to lion, leopard, buffalo and a variety of plains and forest game which have made in their permanent and protected habitat. The acacia savannah which surrounds the lake is itself beautiful and provides an area which is particularly good for game viewing.

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