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Lake Nakuru is a very shallow strongly alkaline lake 62 km2 in extent. It is set in a picturesque landscape of surrounding woodland and grassland next to Nakuru town. The landscape includes areas of marsh and grasslands alternating with rocky cliffs and outcrops, stretches of acacia woodland and rocky hillsides covered with a Euphorbia forest on the eastern perimeter.

The lake catchment is bounded by Menengai crater to the north, the Bahati hills to the north east, the lion hill ranges to the east, eburu crater to the south and the mau escarpment to the west. Three major rivers, the njoro, makalia and enderit drain into the lake, together with treated water from the town's sewage works and the outflow from several springs along the shore.
Lake Nakuru was first gazetted as a bird sanctuary in 1960 and upgraded to National Park status in 1968. A northern extension was added to the park in 1974 and the lake was designated as a Ramsar site in 1990. The foundation of the parks food chains is the cyanophyte spirulina platensis which can support huge numbers of lesser flamingo.
Location:
Central Kenya, 140km north-west of Nairobi, in Nakuru District of the Rift Valley Province. It covers an area of 188 km2.
Climate:
Ranges from Cold, Hot and Humid, Hot and Dry. Annual rainfall is 965mm

MAJOR ATTRACTIONS
Flamingo (Greater and Lesser) and other water birds including a variety of terrestrial birds numbering about 450 species in total.
Mammals: 56 different species including white rhinos.
View-points: Lion hill, Baboon cliff and out of Africa
Hills: Enasoit, Honeymoon, Lion hill ridge etc.
Waterfalls: Makalia
Unique vegetation: About 550 different plant species including the unique and biggest euphorbia forest in Africa, Picturesque landscape and yellow acacia woodlands.
ACTIVITIES
Game viewing, bird watching

WILDLIFE
Major Animals:
Aardwolf; Ant Bear; Baboon, Olive; Bat, African Mouse eared; Bat, African Trident; Bat, Angola Free-tailed; Bat, Banana; Bat, Epauletted Fruit; Bat, False Vampire; Bat, Hollow-faced; Bat, Lander's Horseshoe; Bat, Lesser Leaf-nosed; Bat, Long-eared Leaf nosed; Bat, Rousette Fruit; Bat, Yellow-bellied; Bat, Yellow-winged; Buffalo African; BushBaby; Bushbuck; Cat, African Wild; Cheetah; Civet, African; Colobus, Black and White; Dik-dik, Kirk's; Dog, Hunting; Duiker, Bush; Eland; Fox, Bat-eared; Gazelle, Grant's; Gazelle, Thomson's; Genet, Large-spotted; Genet, Small-spotted; Giraffe, Rothschild's; Hare, African; Hippopotamus; Hyaena, Spotted; Hyrax, Rock; Hyrax, Tree; Impala; Jackal, Black-backed; Jackal, Side-striped; Klipspringer; Leopard; Lion; Mongoose, Dwarf; Mongoose, Marsh; Mongoose, Slender; Mongoose, White-tailed; Monkey, Black faced Vervet; Monkey, Sykes; Pangolin, Lesser Ground; Rat, Cane; Ratel; Reedbuck, Bohor; Reedbuck, Chanler's; Rhinoceros, Black; Serval; Shrew, Giant White-toothed; Shrew,Spectacled Elephant; Steinbok; Waterbuck, Defassa; Zebra, Common.

Flamingo (Lesser and Greater), Egyptian goose, Great white pelican, Cattle egret, Blacksmith plover, Great white egret, Sacred ibis, Hammerkop, Sandpipers, Black winged stilt, Grey heron, Yellow billed stork, Little Grebe, Great cormorant, Hadada ibis, King fishers, African spoonbill, Green shank, African snipe, African Jacana, African fish-eagle, Marabou stork, Tawny eagle, European roller, Ox peckers, Bee eaters, Secretary bird, Ground hornbill, Ostrich, Augur buzzard, Martial eagle, Kori bustard, Fiscal shrike, Drongo, Starling, Guinea fowls, Yellow necked spurfowl, Mourning dove.

COMMON VEGETATION
The vegetation is mainly wooded and bushy grassland with a wide ecological diversity and characteristic habitats that range from the lake waters to the escarpment and ridges.
The normally water-covered surface of the lake occupies about a third of the park. The lake water supports a dense bloom of the blue-green Cyanophyte Spirulina platensis from which it derives its colour and which is the major food source for the flamingo.
The lake is fringed by alkaline swamps with areas of sedge, Cyprus laevigatus and typha marsh along the river inflows and springs. The surrounding areas support a dry transitional savanna with lake margin grasslands of Sporobolus spicatus salt grass moving into grasslands of Hyparrhenia hirta and rhodes grass Chloris gayana in the lower areas.
More elevated areas have dry forest with Acacia xanthophloea, olive Olea hochstetteri and Croton dichogamus; Euphorbia candelabrum forest; and bushland dominated by the composites, Mulelechwa Tarchonanthus camphoratus and Psiadia arabica.
Rocky hillsides on the parks eastern perimeter are covered with Tarchonanthys scrub and a magnificent Euphobia candelabrum forest.

Day 1. Nairobi.
Arrival at Jomo Kenyatta international airport. We recieve you and transfer to Panafric Hotel/Similar Overnightstay.
Meal plan: {BB }

Day 2. Lake Naivasha .
Breakfast at hotel in Nairobi and at 7:00am drive via the Great Rift Valley arriving Lake Naivasha is one of the fresh water lakes along the rift valley and offers a superb birding site with lake fringed by the Papyrus on the shores and the Acacia woodland habitats supplemented by the dormant volcanoes of Mt. Longonot, Mt. Eburru and the Ol Karia.Lake Naivasha boasts of over 350 bird species that include species as Goliath, Black Heron, Pied Kingfishers,Long-toed,Long-tailed and Great Cormorants, Three-banded Plover, Cape Wagtail, Grey-headed Kingfisher, White-headed Barbet, Blacksmith Plover, Grey-headed Gull, Red-winged Starling, Northern Anteater-Chat, Grey-capped Warbler, Saddle-billed Stork, Arrow-marked, and Black-lored Babbler, White-winged Widowbird, White-fronted Bee-eaters,Grey-backed fiscal, Yellow-Collared Lovebird.Big game such as the Giraffes,Hippos, Elands, Waterbucks, Buffalos are present.
You can take optional boat rides to see the hippos.Meals and overnight at Lake Naivasha Sopa Resort/Similar.
Approx Transit time: 2 hrs
Meal plan: {B,L,D}

Day 3. Lake Nakuru .
Lake Nakuru National Park is termed as the "the greatest ornithological spectacle in the world" with both Lesser and the Greater Flamingoes sometimes exceeding 1.5 million individuals. The alkaline habitat supports thousands of resident and migratory waterfowl. The alkaline lake, acacia woodland, grassland, rivers and inlets with marshes hold over the 450 species of birds recorded. Some of the common birds includes, the Little Grebe, Great White Pelican, Black- winged Stilt, Gull-billed, Whiskered Tern, Grey- headed Gull, Cape and Red-billed Teal, Southern Pochard, Long-crested, and African Crowned Eagle, White-fronted Bee-eater, Arrow Marked Babbler, Little Rock Thrush, Wailling Cisticola, Ruppell's Long-tailed Starling, Lilac Breasted Roller, Cliff Chat and many species of waders.
The Park is also is rich in big games that includes the Reticulated Giraffes, buffalos, Common Waterbucks, Elands, Hippos, both Black and White Rhinos, lions, Leopard, Spotted Hyenas, among many small mammals.Meals and overnight at Sarova lion Hill lodge/Similar.
Approx Transit time: 1.5 hrs
Meal plan: {B,L,D}

Day 6. Nairobi
After breakfast,enroute game viewing as you drive back to Nairobi.
Approx Transit time: 5.5 hrs
Meal plan: {B}

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