Awhile back (2 months - yes I have been slacking on my blog updates!) I took my first safari in Kenya to Lake Nakuru National Park with some friends from Kisumu. The park was initially established as a bird sanctuary and is Kenya’s first established rhino sanctuary and therefore has one of the largest concentrations of black rhino in the country (Nakuru is also home to white rhino). The park has 500 species of bird including 2 difference flamingo species whose populations can number up to 1.5 million at a time. The cats represented are lions, cheetahs, hyenas, leopards and jackals. Then of course there are baboons, zebras, giraffes, water buffalo and gazelles. Of this we saw everything except cats - but surely not every bird species. Despite some rain on the first day our game
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