Our first weekend in Nakuru, and we liased with Jane a local tour operator for what ended up being a rather full weekend for more reasons than the obvious.
Saturday saw us up early and off to Lake Nakuru National Park, searching for some of the Big Five. The Big Five are: Elephants (not at this park), Leopards, Lions, Rhinos and Buffalos. On arrival I saw one of the loveliest things I’ve seen, with the sun coming through the mist and trees at the Park. We spent the day 6 in each bus, one we nicknamed ‘The Professionals’ with all the photos they took, zooming around to find the rare animals and taking our time over the others. Here are a selection of my snaps – we were lucky enough to see lions and a leopard!!
So lovely through the trees at Lake Nakuru
What are you looking at in MY neighbourhood, huh?
He really didn't move at all, well, if you weighed 2 tonnes you'd think twice...
Some very strange animals
After this we went to the Menengai Crater near Nakuru. The crater itself took my breath away, absolutely enormous like a giant basin that gods had scooped out. However the most staggering thing…..was actually seeing the parts of the town along the road to the crater. A real eye opener. What I would have thought were makeshift accommodations and buildings were actually permanent structures. This does not even count as poverty in some parts of Kenya but was eye opening. Where as Kenya is making some fabulous progress there are still some basic challenges that need to be addressed.
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