Lake Nakuru

There we are Lake Nakuru. Just a couple of kilometers from the hustle of central Nakuru an army of flamingos turn a sky blue lake bright pink and prehistoric looking horned mammals crash through a landscape of euphorbia trees and acacia forest. With all this and a wealth of other birds and animals there's little doubt why Lake Nakuru National park is rivalling Amboseli as Kenya's second most visited park.

Alongside the flamingos the star attractions of this park are the rhinos black n white and sightings of white rhinos, rumbling like steamrollers through the bushes, are now almost a given at the lake's southern end. Since this species was re-introduced some years ago lake Nakuru has become far and away the best place in the country to see this animals. By contrast the shy black rhinos, browsers by nature and much more aggressive sometime difficult to spot