8/12/2008 Maasai Mara game drive, drive to Lake Nakuru, Lake Nakuru Lodge, late afternoon game drive

 Buffet breakfast at our lodge.  Check out.

Last game drive in the Maasai Mara.  We see helmeted guinea fowl, black backed jackal.

Helmeted guinea fowl

Black backed jackal

We are off to Lake Nakuru-a drive of  around 6 hours.  We're driving through the Great Rift Valley.  This is the area of the Naandi tribe and the town Kikuru.  On the way to our lodge we spot white rhino and olive baboon in Lake Nakuru National Park.

Kikuru town

White rhino

Olive baboon

Check in to Lake Nakuru Lodge.  Nice pool.

Pool

Late afternoon game drive in the small Lake Nakuru National Park.   Pretty scenery.  Olive baboons, cape buffalo, male impala, helmeted guinea fowl, Egyptian goose, superb starling bird, female impala, greater blue-eared starling, leopard, white rhino, cattle egret bird.  Stopping by Lake Nakuru we see thousands of lesser and greater flamingos stretching across the water in a pink haze.  Great white and pink backed pelicans.  Marabou stork, blacksmith plover bird (lapwing).

Olive baboons

Cape buffalo

Male impala

Leopard

Helmeted guinea fowl

Egyptian geese

Superb starling

Female impala

Greater blue-eared starling

Postcard

Postcard

White rhino

Lake Nakuru

Lesser and greater flamingo

Karen and Ed

Driver/guide Givan

Blacksmith plover (Lapwing)

Marabou stork

Dinner at our lodge.  Wish I had taken more pictures of the food we had on this trip.  I can remember thinking how amazing it was that these food products could make it to these lodges which are located so far from big cities.  There was always a great variety and it all tasted so great.  Lots of fresh fruit, salads, meats......