page_title: Lake Naivasha Country Club
section_title: Activities
hierarchical_section_title: Lake Naivasha Country Club / Activities
context_page_description: The Lake Naivasha Country Club is located on the opposite shore of Lake Naivasha from the town of Naivasha, Kenya.
  Built using old colonial architecture and opened in 1937,
  Lake Naivasha Country Club provides accommodation in rooms and cottages across 12 ha of green lawns shaded by mature acacias and fever trees.
  The public rooms also display the British colonial style. The residents' lounge has a massive fireplace and large bay windows. The bar adjoins a billiards room, for playing billiards and snooker in the British tradition.
  Views across Lake Naivasha are dominated by the shadow of Mount Longonot, 2,777 m high, a dormant volcano which, in 1983, was declared a Kenyan national park. Mount Longonot also can be seen from the eastern escarpment on the scenic highway to the region.
context_section_description: There is fishing for black bass and tilapia, and a boat trip during the day provides a close view of Naivasha's wide variety of birdlife and its hippo colonies.
  Crescent Island, 15 minutes away by boat, is a private game sanctuary, with zebra, wildebeest, gazelle, vervet monkeys, hares, genet cats, waterbuck and giraffe. Crescent Island is one of the few places in Africa where people can wander on foot among herds of antelope since there are no predators on the island. LNCC will arrange boat trips for a reasonable charge.
  Naivasha is also a site for birdwatching, with over 300 species of birds on display: three bird walks a day have been offered along the grounds of the country club, including early morning bird walks which are particularly good for rare sightings of birds. They have a bird-sighting book available publicly to record birds one sees.
caption: A submerged Hippopotamus
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