We spent two relaxing days on safari in Nakuru National Park. (The word safari actually means a journey or trip.) The permanent tented camp that we stayed at was called Flamingo Hills Camp. It was the perfect place for us: a small camp with only 28 tents. Since it was the low tourist season, there were very few people there and we got the deluxe treatment.
Nakuru National Park is most famous for lesser flamingos. At one point in time it was estimated that over 2 million, 1/3 of the world's lesser flamingo population, lived on the lake. Lake Nakuru doesn't have an outlet, so its water level fluctuates. This causes the birds to migrate to other nearby lakes when there isn't enough food in this soda lake. Even today with a greatly reduced flamingo population, it is still an impressive site to see in the distance pink water, water covered with flamingos.
It is a beautiful park with plenty of wildlife. On our two game drives we saw impala, baboons, vervet monkeys, Rothschild's giraffe, both black and white rhinos, waterbuck, cape buffalo, warthogs, jackals, zebra, dik-dik, Thomson's gazelles, malibou storks, and white pelicans.
We'd recommend this park and tent camp to anyone.
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