{"id":86198,"date":"2025-01-02T09:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T09:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diwakasafaris.com\/lake-nakuru\/"},"modified":"2025-01-02T09:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T09:23:13","slug":"lake-nakuru","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/migration.diwakasafaris.com\/en-ca\/kenya-destinations\/lake-nakuru\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Nakuru"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Lake Nakuru<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Lake Nakuru National Park is one of the Rift Valley soda lakes. It lies to the south of Nakuru, in central Kenya and is protected by a small Lake Nakuru National Park. The lake’s abundance of algae attracts the vast quantity of flamingos that famously lines the shore. A perfect destination for Kenya Safari Other birds also flourish in the area, as do warthogs, baboons and other large mammals.<\/p>

Black and White rhinos have also been introduced. The lake’s level dropped dramatically in the early 1990s but has since largely recovered. Nakuru means “Dust or Dusty Place” in Maasai language. Lake Nakuru National Park, close to Nakuru town, was established in 1961. It started off small, only encompassing the famous lake and the surrounding mountainous vicinity. Now it has been extended to include a large part of the savannahs. Lake Nakuru National Park (188 km\u00b2), created in 1961 around Lake Nakuru, near Nakuru Town.<\/p>

It is best known for its thousands, sometimes millions of flamingos nesting along the shores. The surface of the shallow lake is often hardly recognizable due to the continually shifting mass of pink. The number of flamingos on the lake varies with water and food conditions and the best vantage point is from Baboon Cliff. Also of interest is an area of 188 km around the lake fenced off as a sanctuary to protect Rothschild giraffes, black rhinos and white rhinos. Lake Nakuru National Park has recently been enlarged partly to provide the sanctuary for the black rhino one of the big attraction in the big five safari.<\/p>

This undertaking has necessitated a fence – to keep out poachers rather than to restrict the movement of wildlife. The park marches for 12.1 km on the south eastern boundary with the Soysambu conservancy which represents a possible future expansion of habitat for the rhinos and the only remaining wildlife corridor to Lake Naivasha. Lake Nakuru National Park now has more than 25 black rhinoceros, one of the largest concentrations in the country, plus around 70 white rhinos. There are also a number of Rothschild’s giraffe, again translocated for safety from western Kenya beginning in 1977.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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