Lake Naivasha And Hells Gate National Park From Nairobi

Short Overview

Although Nairobi, so dynamic, vibrant, and full of striking images, tends to be hard to be left, opt for a day full of adventures in beautiful nature! Visit Lake Naivasha and Hell’s Gate National Park in one day, packed with images.

The evocative landscape of Hell’s Gate National Park is composed of cliffs, water-gorged gauges, stiff rock towers, volcanoes, and plumes of geothermal steam. All these make it one of the most atmospheric parks in Africa. This scenery was also used in the 1980 Hollywood film “Sheena, Queen of the Jungle”.

Lake Naivasha is a vast freshwater lake at the highest elevation of the Kenyan Rift valley at 1884 metres. With its 139 square kilometres of fresh water and surrounding 64 square kilometres of a swamp, it is home to many animal species; a sizable population of hippos resides there, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects, and, of course, fish, which have been almost totally displaced by the invasive newcomer, the common carp. Many terrestrial animals feed and drink on it, and the backdrop scenery consists mainly of plantations of blooming flowers, the most important agricultural crop in the vicinity of the lake.