Lake Nakuru Day Trip Safari – & Optional Lake Naivasha Boat
Description
This is a full day excursion that takes you on a Safari adventure outside Nairobi visiting four attractions withing the Great Rift valley. Lake Nakuru gives you the opportunity to observe the world renowned flamingos as well search for other wildlife such as buffaloes, rhino, giraffes and baboons. Lake Nakuru is world famous also as a sanctuary for both black and white rhino. Besides that, more than 400 species of birds can be seen in the park. Between the lake and the cliffs in the west, large pythons inhabit the dense woodland, and can often be seen crossing the roads or dangling from trees. Also covered in this tour is the Baboon Cliff, Makalia Waterfall, the Rift Valley View Point and a visit to Lake Naivasha for a boat safari in search for birds and hippos and finally nature walk at the crescent sanctuary which lets you get up close to animals.
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Itinerary
Pick up from agreed location in Nairobi and Drive down the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway (officially called A104) with spectacular views on the Great Rift Valley.
Get to see lake Elementaita in the distance were flamingo came to hatch. the lake also hosts the Kekopey hot springs, a location that is thought to be an ancient passage site involved in the yesteryear ivory and slave trades
Arrive at Lake Nakuru at 8.30 AM and get into the 4X4 Safari Land cruiser Jeep for a morning game drive along the lake shore. The lake is famous for Flamingos visiting to feed on algae forming on the lake bed. They move back and forth, feeding and occasionally taking to the skies filling it with pink color. The park is also home to Roth’s child Giraffes, Water bucks, Impala, Lions, Leopards, Pythons and Rhinos which we will track on our drive to Makalia Fall, one of the rivers feeding the Lake and later to the Baboon Cliff.
A waterfall on the southern end of lake Nakuru national park, along one of the rivers that flow into the lake. It has a drop of about 10 m off a sheer cliff, a large plunge pool. Its one of the places in the park where you can step out of the vehicle. Makalia falls is spectacular for viewing, just watching the water from the cliff, coupled with bird sounds and the roar of the falls is a delightful scene.
This popular viewpoint and a lunch spot has spectacular views of the lake, with some fine aerial vistas down onto the flooded lake shore. Baboons, however, are a problem and don't mind raiding vehicles, whether you're inside or not, for food scraps.
Lake Naivasha is an ideal place for boating and a bird lovers paradise, with wide open waters, fantastic surrounding scenery and plenty of channels to explore. this tour will let you see a haven birds in addition to giraffes, water-bucks, elands, wildebeests, zebras, impalas and hippos on the shores of the Lake
Crescent Island in Lake Naivasha is a walkable sanctuary where you can walk among giraffe, zebra, hippos, antelope, wildebeest, and many birds such as goliath heron, spoonbills and giant kingfishers. It takes you a 2 hours to walk around the sanctuary. These animals were brought her to film Out of Africa and were left here to thrive. There are no predators here.
Stop at the Rift Valley View Point where you will stop for a photo session and a panoramic view of the Valley
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Airport Pick Up/Drop off 25 usd Per Booking
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Reviews(8)
We had the best time with our tour guide Samuel, he really made sure that we were well looked after, and that we did everything we wanted to experience. He was very patient with us and extremely knowledgeable on the local wildlife and the local area, and he managed to answer our million questions about the birds we saw! He very clearly has a passion for what he does, and the conversation flowed easily with him, we would highly recommend his tour for anyone interested and we would definitely choose him again in the future!
It was such a wonderful day to be over there with friends we learned a lot from the safari knowing more about giraffe.We had a lot of fun ridding boats in lake naivasha we got to see hippos and flamingo 🦩 ND other birds.for me I expected what I wanted to see it will be a trip to remember and it gave me the opportunity to want to be a tour and travel operations guide thank you so much.The staff members we cool their service were to good most of them were kind and honest.Nakuru atmosphere is great although am from Nakuru that day the weather favored us and we were not much crowded the capacity was good 👍 as told by the tour guide their admission fees was also nice and fair.Thank you happy tour expenditures to make that day a successful and happy day filled with joy and people who met from other countries.
We had a wonderful day. It's a varied and full experience from morning to evening and we spent as much or as little time as we desired at each activity.
I really learnt alot from this trip and i would recommend other people to do this.The crew is amaziand organised, they made our day beautiful.
The views were amazing.. Our guide Simon came on time and treated us with pure kindness.. We took so many photos...The flamingos were amazing.. We'd love to revisit the place again and explore more.
The lake is amazing but the transportation to it is very bad because of bad roads and also the van is uncomfortable. I suggest to drive first to the site by car and then take the safari van or jeep
This was amazing. A day well spent was a lot of animals and the guides were fun and very knowledgeable. The boat ride is worth it
