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Lake Nakuru Safari: Explore Diverse Wildlife
4.5
11 Ratings
Lake Nakuru
Embark on a full-day adventure at Lake Nakuru National Park, home to flamingos, rhinos, hippos, and more. Experience Africa’s diverse bird population and spot wildlife on a private day trip with a lake Naivasha boat ride.
Embark on a full-day adventure at Lake Nakuru National Park, home to flamingos, rhinos, hippos, and more. Experience Africa’s diverse bird population and spot wildlife on a private day trip with a lake Naivasha boat ride.
Duration:
12 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Lake Nakuru - After meeting your guide at your hotel or apartment within Nairobi at 6.00am, the guide will introduce you to the tour and a brief tour itinerary. You will start your journey to Nakuru. While en route, stop at the great rift valley view point where you will attain magnificent views of the escarpment. Arrive at lake nakuru by 9.00am….
- Lake Nakuru - After meeting your guide at your hotel or apartment within Nairobi at 6.00am, the guide will introduce you to the tour and a brief tour itinerary. You will start your journey to Nakuru. While en route, stop at the great rift valley view point where you will attain magnificent views of the escarpment. Arrive at lake nakuru by 9.00am. start your 4- hour game drive with your guide and part. Break for lunch at a local restaurant, lake nakuru lodge. Alternatively you may have a pre -arranged picnic lunch in the park.
- Lake Naivasha - Best hippo viewing on a motor boat ride on lake Naivasha. After lunch , continue to enjoy additional game drive on your way out. depart the park at approximately 2pm and head to lake Naivasha for 1 hour hour boat ride. While on the boat ride, enjoy bird watching , eagle feeding and hippo viewing. As your boat ride comes to an end , return to the dock. Begin the drive to Nairobi and get dropped at your hotel or apartment to arrive at 6.30pm
What's Included
- Professional guide
- Perfect safari vehicle with a pop-up roof
- Bottled water
- Pick-up and drop-off at your hotel in Nairobi
- Professional guide
- Perfect safari vehicle with a pop-up roof
- Bottled water
- Pick-up and drop-off at your hotel in Nairobi
What's Not Included
- Tea and coffee
- Lake naivasha Boat ride fee $25
- Tips and gratuities
- Lunch. Available at own expense
- Tea and coffee
- Lake naivasha Boat ride fee $25
- Tips and gratuities
- Lunch. Available at own expense
Additional Information
Known for its flamingos, Lake Nakuru national park provides one of the most varied bird populations in Africa, along with black and white rhinos, hippos, leopards, lions and more. Even if you can’t spare time for an overnight safari, you can still enjoy it on this private day tour, right from your lodging: Include a boat ride on Lake Naivasha. Your excursion includes transportation, a guide, and game drives.
Known for its flamingos, Lake Nakuru national park provides one of the most varied bird populations in Africa, along with black and white rhinos, hippos, leopards, lions and more. Even if you can’t spare time for an overnight safari, you can still enjoy it on this private day tour, right from your lodging: Include a boat ride on Lake Naivasha. Your excursion includes transportation, a guide, and game drives.
Location
Lake Nakuru
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.5
(11 Ratings)
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Terraro
Jun 5, 2025
Fantastic visit to Lake Nakuru - Douglas was an excellent guide! Unfortunately, the pink flamingos had not migrated back to Lake Nakuru yet (they should be coming back soon) but that didn't stop my enjoyment of the tour. Douglas took the time to really search for a variety ofpany beautiful birds and animals - and his keen eye caught a male tiger stalking a heard of zebras as well as a rare black rhino (both from quite far away - I was only able to see it with binoculars after he spottted both as we we're driving with just his eyes). And we saw a male lion and several female lions wake up and walk around up close! Douglas is also extremely knowledge about the animals in the park and happy to answer questions and provide more information. A fantastic experience, highly recommend this company.
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Ian_m
May 26, 2025
Great animal experience - Great guide with a personalized experience. Got so close to the animals including a lion who we waited patiently to wake up. Highly recommended.
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Ianm5793
May 24, 2025
An amazing animal experience - I had a wonderful guide who knew all the right spots to find animals. We waited patiently for a lion who was sleeping. After 30 minutes he woke up, walked straight towards us and then past the car. Amazing and the animals all get super close.
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Neldariol
Mar 16, 2025
Excellent experience - The tour was Amazing! We enjoy the views and the animals. Douglas and Calvin were the best! From 6am to 6pm tour and later in Nairobi again.
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Nyakund
Nov 21, 2024
Safari worth it. - Such a great experience. I really enjoyed the overnight stay and safari in Amboseli with Douglas. He's such a great guide well experienced. He drove safely and shared a lot through the busy highway of Mombasa with lots of trucks.
It was such great fun and experience. He's a great eye in spotting animals from a distance.
He will communicate with other guides and will always find all I wanted to see. Kudos Douglas and I will always ask for you once I'm in Kenya.
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615eunicew
Nov 9, 2024
A fantastic day. - I had a wonderful trip to Lake nakuru and lake naivasha where I had the pleasure of seeing black rhinos in lake nakuru national Park. Douglas was a thoughtful and knowledgeable guide who took great care of me and also answered my millions questions. If your planning to go on this tour I would suggest you take with you some snacks to keep you going until lunch. Highly recommend.
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Victoria
Oct 2, 2024
Douglas is extremely knowledgeable, patient, very thorough, easy going yet reliable & kind. We were very safe & had fun! - Douglas treated us like his own family. He went the extra mile to make sure that we found, did and saw every thing we wanted
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N5709jblilianm
Sep 4, 2024
Definitely a must do. - We couldn't have had a better tour guide, Douglas, was friendly and helpful,he passionately told us alot about the animals and made sure that we had the best experience.He was flexible to our needs and wishes he would do lots of breaks and also stopping for photos when requested.overally he is excellent 👌.
The expirience was truly wonderful and exceeded our expirations.THe optional boat ride on lake naivasha is not to be missed,it was the best way to end the day and we saw a number of hippos up close
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Rene_w
Jun 30, 2025
No more flamingos in this park - If you book a language other than English, it is not guaranteed! I had a German leader confirmed. Unfortunately, it didn't work...
Further, the vehicle was another disappointment. Old, uncomfortable and a shaker on Kenya's streets.
Then I already come to the next point: The distance to the park is about 170 km. 3 - 4 hours time required each way. There's not too much time left for the animals. The park is huge! With this tour you will see only a very limited part of the park. If you're lucky, you'll see from the Big 5 2 - 3 of them.
The encounters with “creation” were nevertheless impressive. Calvin my driver and guide (unfortunately only in English) was very competent and tried very hard to meet my wishes. Nevertheless, I would not recommend the tour but only book a Nairobipark Safari.
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Amie_l
Jul 11, 2025
If you’re looking for flamingos, don’t go! - I booked this trip solely to see the famed flamingos. We were going to go to Lake Nakuru, but we’re informed that there are no longer flamingos at the lake. So, our driver, gave us the option of going to Lake Elemntaita to see flamingos… there were maybe 50 (we were told there were 200). So, we also didn’t get to do the safari because we didn’t go to Lake Nakuru national park. We ended our tour 3 hours early. The boat ride at Lake Naivasha was also underwhelming, minimal hippos sightings. We saw two groups very briefly, but it was mostly just seeing animals in Crescent Island from the boat.
Overall $250 for a ride to an from Nairobi because tickets to both were not included, nor was lunch. Definitely not worth the price!
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