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Kenya
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Requirements, Things To Do, When
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Nakuru
National Park
Lake Nakuru is world famous for, and was
created a National Park, to protect its stunning flocks of lesser
flamingo.
When conditions are right, between one and two million lesser and
greater flamingos feed around the shores of the shallow soda lake,
together with tens of thousands of other birds. The best place to view
the birds is from Baboon Cliff, where you get an excellent view over
the lake. The Flamingoes literally turn its shores pink.
Its birdlife is world renowned: a beacon for leading ornithologists,
scientists and wildlife film-makers. The park spans an attractive range
of wooded and bush grassland around the lake offering wide ecological
diversity, from lake water, woodland to the rocky escarpments and
ridges.
Notable game within the lake includes hippo and clawless otters. On the
shores roam waterbuck, Bohor's Reedbuck and zebra. The woodlands and
forest are now home to both black and white rhino. In 1987, only two
black rhinos remained following the ravages of poaching. By creating a
rhino sanctuary within the park and reintroducing a breeding herd from
Laikipia, the K.W.S. has now successfully re-established rhino in the
park.
It's often combined with the other lakes - Naivasha for example - and
wildlife areas such as the nearby Aberdare National Park.
Game viewing is relatively easy: buffalo, leopard, lion, Rothschild's
giraffe, Black and White Colobus monkey are plentiful in the forest.
The bushlands offer eland, steinbok, impala, Chandler's reedbuck and
dik dik, whilst rock hyrax and klipspringer occupy the cliffs and
escarpment.
In general the Rift Valley Lakes Lake Nakuru, Lake Bogoria, Lake
Elementeita are famous for their abundance of flamingos and other water
fowl, while the Masai Mara National Reserve is home to the country's
greatest concentration of big game. |
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