Visit to Lake Nakuru National Park

This weekend we went to Lake Nakuru National Park. Lake Nakuru is one of the Rift Valley soda at an elevation of 1754 m above sea level. It lies to the south of Nakuru, the third largest city of Kenya, in the rift valley of Kenya and is protected by Lake Nakuru National Park. Nakuru means "Dust or Dusty Place" in the Masai language. Lake Nakuru National Park was established in 1961. It started off small, only encompassing the famous lake and the surrounding mountainous vicinity, but has since been extended to include a large part of the savannahs. I think it’s a good place to visit for birds, especially flamingos but you have been to Masai Mara then other big animals probably won’t excite you.

White Rhino at Lake Nakuru

The lake's abundance of algae attracts the vast quantity of flamingos and other birds also flourish in the area. Unfortunately, we did not see flamingos but saw a lot pelicans, baboons, Rhinos, zebras, buffalos, and Giraffe.Our safari driver told us that flamingos migrate to other lakes during May and June and come back in August. Oh yes we did see a lonely flamingo which must have been left behind by the migratory birds. Here are some of the photos I took: