| Lake Nakuru National Park in Kenya was | | | | than any other has made the lake famous |
| established in 1961, and it has grown from | | | | throughout the world |
| just the lake and the mountains around to now | | | | |
| include a lot of the savannahs. As a | | | | Lake Nakuru is best known for the huge |
| consequence the amount of wildlife to view | | | | stunning flocks of lesser Flamingo, and for |
| has increased enormously, making Nakuru a | | | | many this is the highlight of their Kenya |
| very worthwhile part of any African safari | | | | safari holiday, but there is far more to see |
| trip. It is at an altitude of 5700 ft, and | | | | in the Park than just the pink Flamingos. |
| covers an area of over 188 sq. Kms. | | | | |
| | | | The differing environments from the lake |
| Its height above sea level alone means that | | | | itself to wooded and bush grassland, to rocky |
| the vegetation and wildlife are considerably | | | | escarpments and ridges means a great |
| different than say at Tsavo which is mainly | | | | diversity of wildlife. |
| much lower and closer to the sea. | | | | |
| | | | Hippo of course ca be spotted in the lake |
| The lake itself is shallow and alkaline, and | | | | along with 400 other species o birdlife, and |
| varies in size from 5 to 30 square kms | | | | on the shore, waterbuck, zebra, black and |
| depending on the time of year. It is the | | | | white rhinos, buffalo, leopard, lion, |
| alkaline nature of Lake Nakuru that causes | | | | Rothschild's giraffe, warthog, to name but a |
| the huge numbers of visitors each year. It is | | | | few, plus large python snakes. |
| no exaggeration to say that one species more | | | | |