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Watamu Lamu Tzavo East National Park Tzavo West National Park Amboseli Taita hills Masai Mara Samburu Nairobi Malindi Mombasa Kilifi Magadi Naivasha Nakuru Baringo Bogoria Turkana Lake Manyara Ngorongoro Crater Tarangire Serengeti National Park Lake Natron Zanzibar Lake Tanganika Lake Victoria Mount Kilimangjaro Ruhaa Selous Arusha Dar Es Salaam

The Eastern Rift Valley Lakes

...Kenya neatly down the length of the country, Rift Velley Escarpment

essentially separating east from west and forming what is known as the Eastern Rift Valley. The Kenyan section of the Rift Valley is home to eight lakes, of which two are freshwater and the rest alkaline: The first lake is the beautiful, deep-green Naivasha, a freshwater lake lying north west of Nairobi, outside the town of Naivasha. It is situated at an altitude of 1,884 metres and has a surface area of 139 km². Whilst not a National park or Reserve itself, Lake Naivasha Basin holds two small National Parks: the first, the Mount Longonot National Park, whilst the second park, is Hell's Gate National Park, famous for its natural hot geysers, eagle and vulture breeding grounds, obsidian deposits and extinct volcanoes.

Lake Nakuru

Heading further northwest, Lake Nakuru National Park was originally created to protect its stunning flocks of Lesser Flamingo which literally turn the lakeshore pink in colour.

Lake Bogoria

Lake Bogoria is still volcanically active and the western shore is lined with spouting geysers, spurting steam and bubbling geothermal pools. Fresh water springs at the lake edge attract an abundance of birds and wildlife: with over 135 species of birds recorded, the area is of significant ornithological interest.

Lake Baringo

Lake Baringo lies in the solitude of a semi-desert in harsh, rugged but majestic surroundings. The water of Lake Baringo is fresh unlike those other Great Rift Valley lakes and is home tohippos and crocodiles, the latter considered harmless by the local people, the Njemps, who fish standing in water up to their shoulders, whilst crocodiles bent on the same mission, swim quietly by. The town on the western shore, Kampi ya Samaki (literally "Fishing camp") has a population of a couple of hundred and a reasonable array of shops and a clinic, including a post office with online computers.

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