Kenya: Crater Lake Reserve

Crater Lake Reserve is a small protected area surrounding a beautiful green Crater Lake, part of the Rift Valley lakes and next to a much larger Lake Naivasha. You stay at a safari camp on the lake shore, while the reserve and reception are on the rim (this results in the need to hike up and down the nearly vertical staircase all the time). The lake is very scenic and has a few flamingos in it. Also, the reserve is one of the few places in Kenya where you can go on a game walk rather then drive – there are no elephants or lions here. Of coarse, you still have a chance of being jumped by a jaguar, gored by a buffalo, run over by a hippo, or bitten by a deadly snake. It was a totally different experience to walk around zebra, impalas, warthogs, and look at giraffes from down up. And there’s more – this reserve offers night game drives (something that no longer exists in bigger parks due to security risks of running into armed poachers). On a night dive you get to see nocturnal animals – hyenas hunting, bat-eared foxes, African jumping hares, grazing hippos, and bushbabies in the trees (sadly most are very hard to capture on camera).
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