Nakuru Day Tour Safari: Going on a Day Tour to Nakuru National Park From Nairobi
The Nakuru national park day tour safari takes the whole day and starts at 6am in the morning. Nakuru is one of the best parks to visit from Nairobi. It is located 160km north west of Nairobi on the floor of the Great Rift Valley. The lake Nakuru national park is one of the most popular parks for bird watching tour safaris from Nairobi.
The biggest attraction in Nakuru national park are the birds in this alkaline waters. Nakuru is the biggest bird spectacle in the whole world. The lake Nakuru is home to over 2 million flamingos which feed on the algae bloom that thrives well in the alkaline waters of the lake.
These birds are so many and they form a pink ribbon all around the lake which can be seen from miles away. There are more than 400 other species of birds in this lake including the resident and migratory birds including Egyptian geese, pelicans, great white pelican, giant herons, Hadada ibis, sacred ibis, blacksmith plover and many others.
The park is also famous for its large populations of black and white rhinos. Nakuru gives you the highest chance to see a rhino at very close range. It is also the easiest park to see a leopard from the tall acacia trees or when they are just strolling along the game drive tracks in the evening. Other animals seen here in Nakuru include the tree climbing lions, rhinos, giraffes, hippos, buffaloes, kudu, waterbucks, klipspringer, colobus monkey, giant pythons, baboons, zebra, wildebeests and many others.
One day safari tour to Nakuru starts early in the morning and takes on the escarpment. You will stop at the escarpment view point to have a panoramic view of the rift valley floor below. The Mt Suswa Crater is visible from here with its green forest inside and the mt Longonot is visible at a distance. You can take photos here and proceed on to Lake Nakuru via Lake Naivasha, another of the 8 lakes in the rift valley system.
You will enjoy a 4hr game drive and have a packed lunch from the baboon cliff or from the airstrip. You will be able to see Lake Nakuru from a birds eye view and also savour the extent of the flamingos on the lake. You will also have an hour game drive in the afternoon before departing Nakuru for Nairobi arriving late in the evening and drop off in your hotel in the city.
Lake Nakuru is easily accessible from Nairobi and takes only 2.5 hrs to get there on all graded roads. It is a nice one day trip excursion from Nairobi if you have a full day to spare in Nairobi city.
There are many other one day safari tours from Nairobi that you can go for besides lake Nakuru day tour. Others include Amboseli 1 day safari tour, Longonot and Lake Naivasha day trip, Nairobi park day safari and many others. You can ask you Nairobi day Tour Company to give you details of the available options for a day trip.
To find out more on the Nairobi Day tours, click here at the links in the "about the author" section below.
The biggest attraction in Nakuru national park are the birds in this alkaline waters. Nakuru is the biggest bird spectacle in the whole world. The lake Nakuru is home to over 2 million flamingos which feed on the algae bloom that thrives well in the alkaline waters of the lake.
These birds are so many and they form a pink ribbon all around the lake which can be seen from miles away. There are more than 400 other species of birds in this lake including the resident and migratory birds including Egyptian geese, pelicans, great white pelican, giant herons, Hadada ibis, sacred ibis, blacksmith plover and many others.
The park is also famous for its large populations of black and white rhinos. Nakuru gives you the highest chance to see a rhino at very close range. It is also the easiest park to see a leopard from the tall acacia trees or when they are just strolling along the game drive tracks in the evening. Other animals seen here in Nakuru include the tree climbing lions, rhinos, giraffes, hippos, buffaloes, kudu, waterbucks, klipspringer, colobus monkey, giant pythons, baboons, zebra, wildebeests and many others.
One day safari tour to Nakuru starts early in the morning and takes on the escarpment. You will stop at the escarpment view point to have a panoramic view of the rift valley floor below. The Mt Suswa Crater is visible from here with its green forest inside and the mt Longonot is visible at a distance. You can take photos here and proceed on to Lake Nakuru via Lake Naivasha, another of the 8 lakes in the rift valley system.
You will enjoy a 4hr game drive and have a packed lunch from the baboon cliff or from the airstrip. You will be able to see Lake Nakuru from a birds eye view and also savour the extent of the flamingos on the lake. You will also have an hour game drive in the afternoon before departing Nakuru for Nairobi arriving late in the evening and drop off in your hotel in the city.
Lake Nakuru is easily accessible from Nairobi and takes only 2.5 hrs to get there on all graded roads. It is a nice one day trip excursion from Nairobi if you have a full day to spare in Nairobi city.
There are many other one day safari tours from Nairobi that you can go for besides lake Nakuru day tour. Others include Amboseli 1 day safari tour, Longonot and Lake Naivasha day trip, Nairobi park day safari and many others. You can ask you Nairobi day Tour Company to give you details of the available options for a day trip.
To find out more on the Nairobi Day tours, click here at the links in the "about the author" section below.
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