Kenya's fourth largest town and the capital of the Rift Valley province, Nakuru is a cheerful agricultural town with a great vegetable market. But other than this it is mainly of interest to tourists because of the nearby Lake Nakuru National Park, Menengai Crater and Hyrax Hill Prehistoric Site.
Lake Nakuru's birdlife is world renowned: a beacon for leading ornithologists, scientists and wildlife film-makers. Lake Nakuru was first gazetted as a bird sanctuary in 1960 and upgraded to National Park status in 1968.The park spans an attractive range of wooded and bush grassland around the lake offering wide ecological diversity, from lake water, woodland to the rocky escarpments and ridges.
Notable game within the lake includes hippo and clawless otters. On the shores roam waterbuck, Bohor's Reedbuck and zebra. The woodlands and forest are now home to both black and white rhino.
The rare Rothschild's giraffe can be found in this park.
