A Kenya Wildlife Safari to Lake Nakuru National Park

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This Kenya wildlife safari takes you to Lake Nakuru National Park which is found in the eastern region of Kenya along geographical co-ordinates of 0o22’S 36o05’E. Lake Nakuru National Park is bordered by a 104 road in the north, elementeita in the east, Mau region conservancy in the west. Lake Nakuru National Park mainly conserves the ecosystem around Lake Nakuru. Lake Nakuru is a shallow alkaline lake with warm waters and spans over a distance of 188sqkm or 73sqkm

This Kenya safari to Lake Nakuru National Park gives you an opportunity to encounter with great multitudes of flamingo birds both greater and lesser flamingos which gather along the shores of this lake in hundreds of thousands or sometimes in millions. Other attractions in Lake Nakuru National Park you will get to see during your short wildlife safari Kenya include warthogs, baboons, eastern black and white southern rhinos. For birders, this short Kenya wildlife safari to Lake Nakuru National Park is a charming safari as it gives you an opportunity to indulge in a unique Kenya birding safari since this national park is home to 500 bird species such as Abyssinian thrush, crab plover, brimstone canary, arrow marked babbler, grey crowned crane, black-winged lapwing, bateleur, Kenya rufous sparrow, Hildebrandt’s starling, eastern imperial eagle, sooty falcon, Schalow’s wheatear, shining sunbird, Ruppel’s vulture, montane white eye, speke’s weaver, great spotted.

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Many travellers who make an Africa wildlife safari to any of Kenya’s wildlife safari parks also visit other east African wildlife destinations such as Queen Elizabeth National Park, Murchison falls national park and Kidepo Valley National Park and Lake Mburo National Park which are found in Uganda. A Uganda safari to any of these parks avails you an opportunity to undertake a spectacular Uganda wildlife safari since all these parks are home to numerous wild mammals like Africa’s big five game found as well as other wild mammals. Uganda is a popular birding destination and a Uganda birding safari gives you an opportunity to meet several of the 1061 bird species that call Uganda home and its home to numerous endemic bird species such as the shoebill stork, the great blue turaco, and the Karamoja apalis.

As you plan for you Kenya safari tour to Lake Nakuru National Park, you don’t have to worry about the adverse weather conditions just like in many other Kenya safari destinations which have relatively higher temperatures because Lake Nakuru experiences a fairly cool savannah climate unlike many parts of Kenya. Its wet season is experienced in the months of March to May with a temperature range with highs of 27oC or 81oF and lows of 11oC or 52oF while the dry season comes in from the months of June to November with a temperature range of lows of 09oC or 48oF to highs of 25oC or 77oF.

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