Overview
What to expect on a Lake Nakuru Park day tour.
Kenya’s most popular national park and with good reason. The park offers great black and white rhino sightings, with tree climbing lions and leopards very possible.
Centered on a large, shallow lake that supports great birdlife, including pelicans and flamingos, the park has experienced dramatically fluctuating water levels in recent years. This can affect the flamingo populations.
Other Nakuru sightings include; Rothschild’s giraffe, buffalo and hippo are numerous as well. Lucky visitors might see tree climbing lions and leopards are present if you’re lucky you’ll spot one on this day trip to Lake Nakuru National Park.
What to expect on a Lake Naivasha day trip.
Wildlife & Activities at Lake Naivasha.
Lake Naivasha is famous for its high populations of hippos, flamingos, eagles, kingfishers. There are over 1,200 hippos in the area, and you are almost guaranteed to see one.
The lake is a prime destination for birders from all over the world, home to over 400 bird species. Lesser and greater flamingos flock to the lake, forming a wash of bright pink across the lake’s surface.
A day trip to Lake Naivasha promises plenty of adrenaline activities and a good chance to explore Kenyan attraction areas on foot.
Lake Naivasha - Crescent Island Tour.
Crescent Island is one of the most popular attractions in the Lake Naivasha area, named because of its crescent moon shape and it was the primary filming location for the 1985 romantic drama ‘Out of Africa’.
Crescent Island tours last between 1.5 hours.
Crescent Island highlights include;
We’ll take a guided walking tour as we watch the buffaloes, wildebeest, gazelles, giraffes, zebras, impalas, and waterbucks which can be sighted in the immediate surrounding area of Lake Naivasha, around Crescent Island.
Lake Naivasha Boat Safari
Boat safaris are one of the most popular activities at Lake Naivasha.
Jetting out onto the lake is the best way to get up close to the hippos and flamingos while you are gliding along the calm surface of Lake Naivasha in your safari boat. If you look to the shores, you may see zebras, wildebeest, and giraffes strolling at Crescent Island.
A typical boat safari on Lake Naivasha takes around 30 min or an hour (1hr), and the lake’s sheer size means that you will not be distracted by the rumble of other boat engines.
Highlights
- Boat safaris and bird watching.
- Guided walking safari at Crescent Island (walk with wildlife).
- Big 5 wildlife sightings.
- Lesser flamingos sightings.
- Rhino sanctuary.
Itinerary
Expand allCollapse all1: Nairobi – Lake Nakuru – Lake Naivasha
0500hrs: Pick-up from your Nairobi area hotel / Nairobi airport.
Proceed to the Lake Nakuru Park with breakfast stop along the way.
We'll arrive at Lake Nakuru in the early morning. Enter the park and proceed for a game drive on a wildlife and bird viewing tour.
during the drive, we shall be looking out for Rhino, Leopard, Buffalos, tree climbing Lions, Warthog, Zebra, Grants Gazelle, Baboons, Giraffe and many more…
Bird species including few flamingoes and pelican shall be seen.
Buffet lunch at a safari lodge within Lake Nakuru National Park.
Later we shall proceed to Lake Naivasha.
Afternoon we'll take a boat safari to view hippos, bird life and small game at the Lake shores.
We shall finally visit the Crescent Island where we'll be on a guided walking safari around the sanctuary, walking close to animals.
We may spot Giraffe, Zebra, Antelopes, Waterbuck and more during the short walking safari.
We return to Nairobi arriving in the early evening, at around 7:00 pm with lots to talk about!
You shall be dropped off at your Nairobi area hotel / Nairobi airport.
What’s Included
- Park fees to the mentioned parks.
- Transport in a 4 X 4 Land Cruiser Jeep Open Rooftop.
- Services of an experienced driver /guide.
- Breakfast stop.
- Buffet Lunch.
- Bottled drinking water on the vehicle.
- All game drives.
- Statutory taxes and local levies.
- Sailing boat safari at Lake Naivasha.
- Guided walking safari at Crescent Island.
- Pick up /drop off at Nairobi hotel or Nairobi airport.
- Laundry, drinks & meals not specified.
- Passport and visa costs.
- Travel insurance.
- Accommodation pre and post the safari.
- Tips to driver guides.
- Visits to Maasai village.
- Hot air balloon rides.
- All expenses of personal nature (e.g. Activities etc.)