Lake Nakuru National Park is the most famous of the Rift Valley’s shallow alkaline lakes because it hosts spectacular concentrations of Greater and Lesser Flamingos, sometimes numbering 1.5 million birds in a good season! We saw a mere 150,000 lessers and 5,000 greaters. Alongside the flamingos, thousands of other waterbirds crowded the shoreline: Great White Pelican, Long-tailed Cormorant, Gray-headed Gull, Whiskered Tern, White-winged Black Tern, Saddle-billed Stork, Black-winged Stilt, and much more. The yellow-barked acacia woodland and surrounding savannah harbored Verreaux's Eagle-Owl, White-fronted Bee-eater, Grey-crested Helmet-Shrike, Broad-billed Roller, and Green Woodhoopoe. A pair of enormous courting Southern Ground-Hornbills was a sight we will never forget. And who could forget the large mammals – White and Black Rhinos, Spotted Hyena, Black-backed Jackal, Rothschild Giraffe, and more of what we saw before.