Lake Nakuru National Park is situated in the Great Rift Valley, in Kenya, near Nakuru town. Lake Nakuru is a world heritage site famous for its million plus flamingo population and other bird species. Lake Nakuru National Park's birdlife is world renowned: a beacon for leading ornithologists, scientists and wildlife film-makers. The park spans an attractive range of wooded and bush grassland around the lake offering wide ecological diversity, from lake water, woodland to the rocky escarpments and ridges.
Lake Nakuru's landscape includes areas of marsh and grasslands alternating with rocky cliffs and outcrops, stretches of acacia woodland and rocky hillsides covered with a Euphorbia forest on the eastern perimeter.