After lunch we proceed to Lake Nakuru in the south - another shallow soda lake which has been described as 'an ornithologist's paradise and one of the world's most magnificent sights'. Here one has an opportunity to see up to two million flamingos besides tens of thousands of other birds. Lake Nakuru is also a rhino sanctuary and harbours lions, warthogs, waterbucks, buffaloes, hippo and many other animals. Few sights are as enchanting as the vista of a muted pink lake, so when millions of flamingos turn Lake Nakuru into a sea of pastel plumage, you mustn't miss it. We head further south to Narok, camping in our permanent campsite on the Talek River which is at the edge of the park, by afternoon.
Accommodation is in large stand up tents with beds.
Showers are available in the camp and meals are served in the dining mess or in the open. It is simply impossible to conjure up in your mind the spectacle of thousands of wildebeest, with their large bison-like heads, thundering in single file across the tree studded grasslands of the Mara. The migration which takes the wildebeest from the Serengeti in Tanzania to the Mara is a yearly occurrence which lasts for only a few weeks. During the rest of the year however, the park still boasts an abundance of wildlife. You won't have to look too hard to spy roan antelope, a bat-eared fox, or one of the thousands of topi which are found nowhere else, save Tsavo.