Nairobi: 2-Day Lake Nakuru National Park Safari

Day 1: Nairobi to Lake Nakuru

The adventure starts from the international airport or from your Nairobi city hotel, from where you will proceed by road to the Lake Nakuru National Park. The lake is renowned as a bird sanctuary with over 400 bird species at times, there can be up to 2 million greater and lesser flamingos, as well as tens of thousands of other birds. It’s also rhino sanctuary with excellent wildlife viewing.

Your game viewing will start immediately as you enter the park gates, arriving at the lodge in time for lunch. An afternoon game viewing has been scheduled for you, which will depart at 4:00PM. The park’s landscape includes areas of marsh, grasslands alternating with rocky cliffs and outcrops, stretches of acacia woodland and rocky hillsides covered with a Euphorbia forest on the eastern perimeter. Large animals strive in the dry land surrounding the lake such as the endangered Rothschild giraffe, cape buffaloes, waterbucks, gazelles, leopards, and several species of primates.

Day 2: Lake Nakuru to Nairobi

After breakfast at the lodge, you will check-out and depart by road back to Nairobi with game viewing en-route as you exit the park. Upon arrival at the city, you will be transferred to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your international outbound departure or back to your city hotel.