Mt Kenya
The park lies in Central Kenya, 140km north-west of Nairobi, in Nakuru district of the Rift Valley Province. The ecosystem comprises of the lake, surrounded by mainly wooded and bushy grasslands. The park supports a wide ecological diversity with Flamingos (Greater and Lesser) and other water birds being the major attractions of the area. The ecosystem provides for about 56 different species of mammals including the white rhino and buffaloes and a variety of terrestrial birds numbering nearly 450 species.
MAJOR ATTRACTIONS
- The fabulous flamingo
- An orthologist’s paradise with 450 species of birds
- Kenya’s first rhino sanctuary
- Waterfall : Malaikq
- View –points: Lion hill, baboon cliffs and Out of Africa
- Hills :Enasoit , lion hill, honeymoon e.t.c
- Thomson’s and Grant gazelle, the long-eared leaf-nosed bat, colobus monkey, rock hyrax, hippo, leopard, lion, rhino, waterbuck. Impala, gazelle, striped hyena,bat-eared fox, wildcat, reedbuck, implala, gazelle, striped hyena,golden cat, black and white rhinos
- Prolific birdlife features 450 species ans upto 1.5 million flamingos
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