Hotel Waterbuck Nakuru
Travel Blogs from Lake Nakuru National Park
Lake Nakuru National Park
... Lodge. Seems like a nice place, maybe a little tired around the edges but still very nice and it has character, that’s for sure. Kind of a modern thatched roof look. Our porter hauled our luggage down to the room and explained that we must not leave our sliding door open or the baboons will come into your room. I guess they (baboons) go along and check them to see if anyone left them unlocked and then come in and look for stuff to eat. (We already ...
It's raining, but who cares!
... hills. Lunch was hurried as it had started to rain! We had to be quick to get our afternoon game drive in before the roads deteriorated! The lake is normally a deep colour of pink as thousands of flamingos usually line its shores. Due to lots of recent rain, the level of the water was high and so many of the flamingos has moved to other shallower lakes. We spied numerous waterbirds and a strange phenomenon called a 'stork tree'! The rains ...
First Game Drive
... are are advised to eat it insides because of the monkeys, who do appear after we have finished to gather the crumbs.
We spent the rest of the afternoon spotting and watching the abundance of wildlife. On the way back to camp we stop off at a supermarket. We are scanned at the entrance by security. These supermarkets are only used by the rich and it seems you can buying everything and anything here.
Ken cooks tilipia for ...
Safari with Roel & Sven
... here is because of all the wild animals wandering around and during our 4 hour game drive we saw a lot of White Rhino's from a close distance and even 2 Black Rhino’s as well. The famous Flamingo’s of Lake Nakruru were not there but the park offered enough variety to keep us satisfied. In the evening our house was surrounded by more than 50 ...
The start of our dream!!
... honeymoon and then Diane and John. First thing we did was change some dollars into Kenyan Shillings, then walked to our safari vehicles. Our guides were Ben and Peter and they were brilliant throughout the trip and really looked after us. We then got going out of Nairobi, what a nightmare the driving is there!! OMG! there didn't seem to be any traffic rules at all, just everyone for themselves!! We stopped of at a petrol station so we could ...