A lodge inside Lake Nakuru National Park, with rooms and cottages close to the rhino sanctuary.
Lake Nakuru Lodge is inside Lake Nakuru National Park, which means early starts to look for rhinos without a long drive.
The lodge offers rooms and cottages with en-suite bathrooms.
Park fees are paid for each day you are inside Lake Nakuru National Park, including the nights you sleep at the lodge. We usually plan an afternoon drive on arrival and an early drive the next morning before heading on to the Mara or Naivasha.
Families and travellers on the way to the Mara.
Lake Nakuru is about three hours by road from Nairobi on the main Rift Valley highway, and about five to six hours from the Masai Mara.
Lake Nakuru National Park in the Rift Valley is a fenced rhino sanctuary with both black and white rhinos, as well as Rothschild’s giraffes, lions, leopards and many birds. Flamingo numbers vary as lake levels change. Read rhinos of Lake Nakuru.
The park fee is US$90 per adult per day. Baboon Cliff gives a sweeping view over the lake, and Makalia Falls lies in the south. See the Lake Nakuru guide.
The park is compact, so a few hours of driving cover the main areas, from the lakeshore woodland to the ridge-top viewpoints. Rhinos often graze in the open grassland near the lake, and leopards rest in the yellow-barked acacia trees. Because the park is fenced and well protected, Nakuru is one of the most reliable places in Kenya to see rhinos. See our rhinos of Lake Nakuru story and the Kenya guide for where else to look.
One night or a long half day is enough, often on the way to the Mara. See our 4-day Masai Mara and Lake Nakuru safari.
Signature 12 daysThe great migration ecosystem from both sides: Lake Nakuru and the Masai Mara in Kenya, Amboseli beneath Kilimanjaro, then the Serengeti, the Ngorongoro Crater and Tarangire in Tanzania.
Beach 10 daysSafari and sea: the Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru and Amboseli, then a flight to the white sands of Diani Beach on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast for four days of rest.
Signature 8 daysKenya at an unhurried pace: Amboseli’s elephants and Kilimanjaro, Lake Naivasha and Hell’s Gate, rhinos at Lake Nakuru and three nights in the Masai Mara.
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