Love the whole bureaucracy of Nakuru National Park – you queue and pay for park entry in US$ and car entry in KSH. For that you get a receipt and a smart card loaded with your money. 10 yards later you hand them both over, and get another receipt back – then you are into the park. It must make sense to someone.
Delightful day in the park – we drove for miles and miles – truck now plastered in mud. Toyota RAV4 is a poor man’s 4wd – it had the ground clearance of a short legged dachshund, and an automatic gearbox. Despite that we had loads of fun and got to see rhino, lions, hyena, and the usual crowd of grazers. The lake is a volcanic soda lake and is home to thousands (formally millions) of pink flamingos – who graze along the shoreline and are a backdrop to rhino, antelope, etc. Bit stinky but very pretty.
Long drive tomorrow to Mt. Kenya.