Spent an awesome weekend in the Rift Valley with some colleagues and friends! Picture in updates, below ;)
Hiking the Menengai Crater -- a volcanic caldera (what happens when a volcano erupts and implodes). Local legend is that the steam rising from the crater is the souls of Maasai warriors making their way to heaven.
View from the top. Since it's a crater, we first hiked down into the crater and then up/out.
Lake Nakuru National Park
View of Lake Nakuru from Baboon Cliff
Nakuru Lake is famous for the thousands of flamingos (which you can see in the distance) but there were also tons of pelicans and marabou storks.
On the safari game drives, you can get surprisingly close to the animals!
Lake Nakuru National Park is also famous for its white rhinos but sightings are pretty rare. We saw three!
Lots of baby baboons:
They may not look exotic but the water buffalo are pretty badass. They can defend themselves from lions and are incredibly dangerous to humans.
In addition to these Thomson's gazelles, we saw tons of impalas, waterbucks, and other types of gazelles!
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