How To Access Lake Nakuru National Park

How to access Lake Nakuru National Park?  This park is one of the best and wonderful National parks in Kenya that is loved by most of the visitors who do visit Kenya or who area on Kenya on safari yearly. Lake Nakuru National Park sits on the floor of the Great Rift Valley in central Kenya and it is known as the park for bird lovers provoking the beautiful scenery. This one of the reasons as to why Lake Nakuru National Park is so busy and guests flock to it to explore its beauty

Getting to Lake Nakuru National Park is one of the most frequently asked questions that guests have asked when they plan for their travel adventure safaris in Lake Nakuru National Park. Visitors accessing Lake Nakuru National Park can do it through the major 3 gates of Lake Nakuru National Park which can be accessed from various stages regions of Kenya that connect to Lake Nakuru National Park

Lake Nakuru National Park is only 166 kilometers away from Nairobi capital city as you drive to the North West of the city. This means that you can access Lake Nakuru National Park from Nairobi for 3 to 4 hours. Nairobi Nakuru Highway is the most prominent road or highway that is used by visitors accessing the Lake Nakuru National Park

The Nairobi –Nakuru highway will give you an insight into the beautiful vegetation and the communities as well as the local people that you will see around the highway as the highway ushers you into Nakuru town or city. From Nakuru town, it is only four Kilometers to reach and Lake Nakuru National Park main Gate. This implies that by passing through Lake Nakuru, you will be able to access Lake Nakuru National Park through the prominent Main gate.

Further visitors can break away from Nairobi-Nakuru highway to access the Lake Nakuru National Park through the Lanet gate and thus visitors accessing Lake Nakuru National Park through this gate will have to gorge passing through Nakuru Town, and from the pint of branch off to Lake Nakuru National Park is just a few kilometers.

For visitors who are interested in joining Lake Nakuru National Park together with Masai Mara National Reserve and Lake Elementaita, then they will be able to access the Lake Nakuru National Park through the Nderit Gate. Thus visitors joining Lake Nakuru National Park from the Masai Mara National Park can use the Nderit gate to access Lake Nakuru National Park because of its strategic location with such routes.

In case you want to fly to Lake Nakuru National Park you can take the domestic flight from Jomo Kenyatta international airport to the Lake Nakuru National Park major airstrip Naishi airstrip. Naishi airstrip is found within the Lake Nakuru National Park and thus you will not need to pass through any gate to get to Lake Nakuru National Park but you will just continue with your safari activities within the park.

Lake Nakuru National Park is known as the birder paradise with over 400 recorded bird species that do reside in the boundaries of the Lake Nakuru National Park. Importantly, Lake Nakuru National Park is prominently known for the larger populations of the flamingos’ birds that reside on the shores of Lake Nakuru.

Some e of the birds that you will explore in Lake Nakuru National Park include; Cape Teal, White-browed robin-chart, Montane nightjar, pied kingfish, black cuckoo, pearl spotted Owlet, African Fish Eagle, Blacksmith plover, Dusky Nightjar, pelicans, African cuckoo, little Rock Trush, among others.

Lake Nakuru National Park also harbors over 50 species of mammals and the ones that you can explore while visiting the park you will explore such animals which include the rare rhinos both black and white rhinos which are protected within the Lake Nakuru National Parks sanctuary and the Rothschild’s giraffe. The other animals within the park include waterbucks, baboons, leopards, colobus monkeys, cheetahs, buffaloes, waterbucks, baboons, impalas lions among other animals of interest.

Lake Nakuru National Park is also characterized by the beautiful topography with raised landscape or ridges that provides unmatchable spectacular views of the parks beautiful scenery. That will compliment your park’s general experience.

Visitors to Lake Nakuru National park will enjoy a lot of several activities and attractions which include bird watching activities, camping, game drives in Lake Nakuru and the experience of the Malakai falls among very many other things. Contact Africa adventure Vacations for More information about Lake Nakuru National Park.