National Park · Kenya
Lake Nakuru
A Rift Valley jewel ringed with fever trees — famous for flamingo-pink shorelines, and one of the surest places in Africa to meet both black and white rhino.
A Rift Valley jewel ringed with fever trees — famous for flamingo-pink shorelines, and one of the surest places in Africa to meet both black and white rhino.
When conditions are right, up to a million lesser flamingos wade Nakuru's soda shallows, painting the shoreline a shimmering pink that you can see from the crater-rim viewpoints above.
Below the spectacle, the park is one of Kenya's premier rhino sanctuaries — sightings of both black and white rhino are close to guaranteed on a full-day drive.
Plan This Experience
Nakuru shelters the rare Rothschild's giraffe, tree-climbing lions and one of the highest leopard densities in the Rift Valley — watch the yellow fever-tree branches carefully.
Drive up to Baboon Cliff for a panorama of the entire lake, then picnic among euphorbia forests found almost nowhere else in East Africa.
Plan This Experience
Everything you need to know before you go — timed and tailored by our local experts.
Reliable game viewing, comfortable temperatures and easy tracks — the classic window.
Migratory birds swell the count past 450 species; flamingo numbers depend on water levels.
Just 3 hours from Nairobi — Nakuru slots perfectly into any Kenya circuit.
One of Africa's most successful rhino sanctuaries, black and white.
Pink horizons when the soda-lake algae blooms — pure photographic magic.
A conservation stronghold for one of the world's rarest giraffe subspecies.
Baboon Cliff and Out of Africa lookouts over the whole shimmering lake.
Rhinos in the foreground, a million flamingos behind — we'll time it right and make you enjoy every bit of it.
Four of our favourite journeys through this destination — every one fully customisable.
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