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Nakuru National Park All-Day Tours
Lake Nakuru National Park is a full DayTrip from Nairobi, Tour lake nakuru national park, best place to view tree climbing lions, leopards, rhinos and flamingos. Below is lake nakuru national park day trip itinerary and highlights.
Game Drive: Top Game drive Nakuru national park day tour, Nakuru national park game drive charges, Nakuru game drive timings, Nakuru 1 day game drive opening hours. Nakuru national park game drive tour is a full day excursion to lake Nakuru park to see the hundreds of animals and birds in this lake park.
Nakuru Day Trip gives you a chance to photograph birds on Lake Nakuru national park day trip or a 2 days Lake Nakuru overnight safari.
The Lake nakuru national park day trip Cost Includes
- Park entrance fees
- Transport in a safari minivan
- Services of a driver guide
- Packed Picnic Lunch at the Makalia Waterfall
- Pick up and drop off at Nairobi hotel
- Bottled Drinking water
- 6:00am: Our guide will pick you up from your Nairobi hotel for the lake nakuru national park day trip tour.
- 7:30am: Scheduled stop at the Great Rift Valley view point to look into the valley from the escarpment to see the Mt Longonot, Mt suswa, the rift valley floor, lake Naivasha and the hot geysers of hells gate.
- 9:00am: Arrive at Nakuru national park full day game drive. Start the game drive around the lake to see great white pelicans, flamingos, ibis, jacana, plovers, storks, herons and many others. Go to the baboon cliff to have a bird’s eye view of the lake. Enjoy game driving until lunch hour.
- 1:00pm: Enjoy a picnic lunch from the Makalia waterfalls camping site under the most wonderful waterfall. You will be in good company of some wildlife at the quiet and scenic campsite.
- 2:00pm: Continue with your Nakuru National park game drive in the park to see the hundreds of animals in the savannah, the acacia woodland and the swamps around the lake.
- 6:00pm: Arrive in Nairobi and you are dropped off in your hotel in Nairobi or at the JKIA Nairobi airport for your evening flight. End of your Nakuru one day transit safari tour.
- Starting price: $139 per person
- Perfect for families
- adventurous
Lake Nakuru National Park Day Trip is a full day birdwatching and big four game viewing tour of Lake Nakuru national park- the third most popular park in kenya.
Lake Nakuru national park Day Trip itinerary starts from Nairobi at 6:00am and returns to Nairobi at 6:00pm in the evening. The drive is only 2.5hrs to lake Nakuru and you will have plenty of time doing the game drive.
Nakuru national park is a 177sqkm park located some 160km north west of Nairobi city. The park is located on the floor of the Great Rift Valley and is home to one of the several soda lakes which goes by the same name. The park is fully fenced by electric wire to avoid human –wildlife and protect the rhino population in the park. Nakuru national park is located only 5 minutes from the Nakuru township and it’s a popular day trip destination for residents of Nakuru and Nairobi as well.
Nakuru National Park Day Trip Game Drive
The Nakuru national park is home to more than 50 animal species and more than 400 species of birds. The park was started in 1966 as a sanctuary for birds and to protect the flamingos and other endemic birds. The park is a very successfully sanctuary for the white and black rhinos and they can be easily seen in the park just next to the game drive tracks. A game drive in Lake Nakuru national park is easy due to the fact that the park is relatively small and its fully fenced.
The animals to see in a full day Nakuru national park game drive include rhinos, lions, leopards, hippos, gazelles, hyenas, giraffes, buffalos, zebra, cheetahs, baboons, elands, impalas, waterbucks and many others.
The park is also the largest bird spectacle in the world with more than 2 million pink flamingos that line its shores at the height of their migration here. The flamingo numbers have recently reduced due to the increase in water levels which make conditions un-conducive for growth of spirulina algae which the main food item for the flamingos.
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The best time to visit Kenya is during the Dry season from late June to October (these are the best wildlife viewing months). The wildebeest migration usually reaches the Masai Mara in August and remains until October when they move back to the Serengeti in Tanzania.
A vacation to Kenya for one week usually costs around KES83,195 for one person. So, a trip to Kenya for two people costs around KES166,390 for one week. … Two people traveling together for one month in Kenya can often have a lower daily budget per person than one person traveling alone for one week.
Yes its worth it to visit Nairobi for some few days. You can visit the Nairobi National Park and stay at eco-friendly camps and enjoy the game drives seeing abundance of wild animals. Then you can also visit the Giraffe Manor and the Elephant orphanage.