Lake Nakuru National Park is located on the floor of the Great Rift Valley, surrounded by wooded and bushy grassland. The park is 188 km2 and was created in 1961 around Lake Nakuru, near Nakuru Town. The park offers the traveller ecological diversity with 56 different species of wildlife.

Lake Nakuru Park is known as bird lover’s hub because of the numerous birds that make home in this park. Lake Nakuru kenya Park is home to over 400 bird species including the flamingos that live on the lake and in the park’s savannah grasslands. The bird species include but not limited to African Fish Eagle, Slender-billed greenbul, Long-tailed widowbird, Rufous-throated wryneck, Montane white-eye, Red-capped lark, Northern puffback, Rüppell’s robin-chat, Shining sunbird and many more.

Lake Nakuru park is a habitat to over 100 endangered rhinos distributed between the black and white rhinos; the park is also home to the endangered Rothschild’s giraffe and other 50 or more animal species that include buffalos, waterbucks, lions, impalas and many more.(Source: Lake Nakuru National Park)

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