Blogs from Lake Nakuru NP, Rift Valley Province, Kenya, Africa - page 2

It is hard to compete with Masai Mara but these two National Parks gave it a good shot. After an endless drive from Masia Mara we arrived to the Lake Nakuru Nation Park and stayed just outside the entrance for the night so we could get in nice and early. One main thing we were hoping to see here is some Rhino which we were not able to locate in Masai Mara and to our luck within the first thirty minutes we were eye to eye with a mother and baby white (indeed they are just white on the nose but have a light gray body) Rhino. This park has a good number of both black and white rhino, main difference is the white are eating grass mostly and black are eating branches from trees. Each ... read more

We departed the Savuka guesthouse in Nairobi around 9 am in the morning and headed to Lake Nakuru. We met our friendly safari guide Peter and found out that no one else booked with our group so it was just the two of us!! It was our first time outside of Nairobi and we were immediately in awe of the changes that take place once you leave the city. The small shacks, people waiting along the side of the road, kids playing football (soccer) in the school yards… and the list goes on. We both decided that the “small village” feel was our preferred viewpoint of Africa and it made us very excited for our volunteer placement with the Maasai. On the way to Nakuru we stopped at a viewpoint to witness the breath taking Great ... read more

Nairobi We flew out of Addis Ababa and into Nairobi on Friday 21 May, leaving behind our independent travels for a few weeks to join an ACACIA overland tour. We had decided due to the great distances to travel and timetable, it would be easier to do this part of the journey with a tour. We stayed at the Hotel Boulevard the night before the tour departure, meeting all our fellow bus/truck (it's still being debated!) mates the night before. From previous experiences, Brent said a tour can be made memorable for very different reasons depending on who you travel with, whether you have a good group of likeminded people and a great tour leader. So we were very pleased to find ourselves with a great group of really genuine friendly people. We started in Nairobi ... read more

Jan 16 Day 1 So I had my breaky then got a taxi over to hotel boulvard. There were a number of tour groups meeting there for their tours. Some really cool big safari trucks. Then ours came and it is pretty pimp not as old and rugged looking but it's really sick. Anyway our first drive was only a couple of hours or so and we stopped to look at mt longronot along the way.  When we got to the park  we had lunch outside it was good, some lunch meat and veggies and some south African chutney, delicious. Then we went on our first game drive. It was awesome not even 2 mins in and we saw buffalo and zebras and some hogs. Then we drove out onto the lake flats to get a ... read more

Left Uganda on 6/23 we drove to the first place that we had our first bush camp which is in Eldorat. Again, it was freezing and I didn't enjoy it the second time either. From there we went to Nakuru, when we first arrived we had some time to shop in the town. Not my favorite. The people are not so nice, the good part was it is not the dirtiest of cities. In the afternoon our group was picked up by small vans so that we could go on a game drive in Nakuru National Park. The park is located about 4KM outside of the town it was a very short drive. The drivers parked in a lot and let us all look a the velvet monkeys. I thought they were so cute until one ... read more