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Lake Bogoria National Reserve Kenya

LAKE BOGORIA NATIONAL RESERVE:
Bogoria lake is a saline water shallow found at the northern part of the Kenyan Rift, 25Km south of Baringo. The reserve occupies the lake and the nearby lands, with an area of 107Km2. During the colonial era, the lake had acquired its name from its founder, the Kampala bishop James Hannington, who was the first European to see this area in 1885, while on his journey for his diocese, using Thompson’s road. This would be a glorious day for the priest, but also his last trip, since as he reached lake Victoria he was mercilessly killed under the order of Mwanga II the harsh King of Buganda.

If Baringo is continuously drawing closer more tourists due to its adequate birdlife, Bogona either is, atleast was still a few years ago, an area where the tourist can find pleasure in the African general appearance of natural features in full solitude. A part from the ornithology lovers, who do not spare the move to Baringo, this place is a bit off the most influential planned journeys, more so those organizing one week. This is because Bogonia is not near outstanding for its mammals’ wildlife, the main aim for most visitors.
Though , if I had to select one part for which just the beauty of the landscape is worth touring, perhaps I would choose this one.

J.W. Gregory, the English geologist who toured the place in 1892, graded the area as “the most beautiful view in Africa”. However, he was right. The lake shows a very good general appearance of natural features of bluish hills habited with dry bush, grasslands and riverine forests, framing the calm water shallow pinned with flamingos. Past the eastern land that skirts the lake, the soil rises suddenly to 600m in the Laikipia Escarpment. At the opposite edge, the earth makes strangely coloured swampy crusts, which break up in deep gaps spitting stinky sulphur waters and stream jets. The close-up geysers, the pink brushstrokes of the flamingos on the lake and farther the dramatic backdrop of the Laikipia Escarpment, convey a hardly beatable aesthetical composition. But be careful not to come so near because the signposts warnings “stop-danger zone-go back”, are serious. The earth collapses below your feet and there is also boiling water.

Bogoria is not even the worst of a wildlife descent. Good lovers of wildlife will like the unparalleled value of being the easiest place to reach in the whole country, where you have the priviledge to view the majestic greater kudu. To add to the other mammals, flamingos and multiple birds fill up the wildlife supply of this reserve.

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