Soysambu Conservancy
A Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya located between Lake Elmenteita Wildlife Sanctuary and Lake Nakuru National Park. The UNESCO World Heritage Site , Kenya Lakes System in the Great Rift Valley, includes Lakes Elmenteita, Nakuru and Bogoria. Soysambu Conservancy is also part of a Ramsar Site and Important Bird Area. Soysambu Conservancy hosts a significant population of the Rothschild’s Giraffe – Nubian Giraffe. The giraffe are a successful example of our Endangered Species Recovery Program. Soysambu Conservancy will ensure that this landscape provides increased value to Kenya, its people and the wider international community through sustainable conservation and enjoyment of it as a national treasure and heritage as a wildlife conservancy in Kenya.
Lake Nakuru National Park
Lake Nakuru in Kenya is just a three-hour drive from Nairobi in the Great Rift Valley. It boasts an abundance of wildlife and spectacular landscapes. Think black and white rhinos, lions, leopards, cheetahs and hippo occupying euphorbia forests, acacia woodlands, savannah grasslands and rocky escarpments around a shallow, alkaline lake.
Up until 2014, Lake Nakuru was renowned for its vast flamingo population (sometimes more than 1.5 million of them at one time), which covered the lake in a blanket of pink plumes. However, rising water levels from heavy flooding have drastically reduced this phenomenon, shrinking their breeding and feeding grounds. Flamingos may not be as abundant as they once were, but a safari at Lake Nakuru still delivers some of the best wildlife viewing in Kenya.
Lake Elementaita Wildlife Sanctuary
Between Lake Naivasha and Lake Nakuru lies another of Kenya’s alkaline lakes – Lake Elementaita. Set within the eastern portion of the Rift Valley, the lake was produced approximately 12 million years ago, and today much of the lake is part of the private Soysambu Conservancy. The area is much less visited than other natural attractions in the region, so you enjoy a sense of privacy and solitude in a wondrous volcanic landscape.
Much of your activity-enriched trip to Kenya’s Lake Elementaita takes place within the 48,000-acre conservancy that serves as a sanctuary for nationally threatened colobus monkeys, endangered Rothschild giraffes, elusive predators, plains game, avi-fauna and many other species. The varied terrain offers volcanic hills, acacia woodlands, grassy plains and stands of Warburgia fever trees and Euphorbia candelabra.
