One-day lake Naivasha tour

On day lake Naivasha tour is the best gateway from the city. This is the tour that will help you unwind, and rejuvenate your soul while coming into harmony with God’s creation. Beautiful sceneries to carry away your emotions. One day lake Naivasha tour is the best gateway from the city. This is the tour that will help you unwind, and rejuvenate your soul while coming into harmony with God’s creation. Beautiful sceneries to carry away your emotions.

There is a particular kind of disbelief that happens when your wooden boat drifts to within three metres of a hippopotamus that is watching you with small, serious eyes from the same level as your feet on the boat floor. The guide says, quietly, to stay still. You stay very still. The hippo decides you are not interesting. It yawns — revealing teeth the size of a man’s hand — and submerges.

That moment happens on Lake Naivasha. It is 90 minutes from Nairobi.

The One Day Lake Naivasha Tour is one of Kenya’s most rewarding single-day excursions — a freshwater lake experience that is completely different from the classic savannah safari and delivers extraordinary wildlife encounters in its own, quieter way. The boat safari is the centrepiece: floating across lily-covered water to hippo pods, watching African fish eagles dive from their perches for fish (your guide throws scraps; the eagle responds in seconds; your camera shutter fires and misses it the first time), and drifting past pelican colonies in the yellow-fever acacia trees that line the lake margin.

From the boat, a walk on Crescent Island — a game sanctuary on an island in the lake — allows you to leave the vehicle entirely and walk freely among giraffe, zebra, waterbuck, and wildebeest. This is the only place in the Nairobi region where you can approach wildlife on foot with no fence between you.

One day. One lake. Multiple moments you will not stop describing to people for years.

During the one-day lake Naivasha tour, you will enjoy photography, birdwatching, a boat ride safari, a cycling safari, and a geothermal hot spa. Lake Naivasha has many opportunities and a lot to do you may run out of time having not explored all the possibilities.