Flamingo Hotspot

FLAMINGOS are very popular and trendy right now around the world - be it on clothing, decor - or floating in your paddling pool! But at Lake Elmenteita in Kenya, they are always the star attraction. Just 2 hour’s drive from Nairobi, Lake Elmenteita in Kenya’s famous Great Rift Valley is popular as a Lake extension alternative to the beach.

This UNESCO Heritage Site provides perfect nesting grounds for the lesser flamingos and great white pelicans that inhabit the alkaline waters of this lake. Birders will love spotting the Grey Crowned Crane, Secretary Bird and Yellow Billed Stork among the 400 bird species. 


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Hole In One

THE Great Rift Valley Lodge & Golf Resort won in the Nature Protection category in the 2017 IAGTO #Sustainability Awards for its reforestation programme alongside the Kenya Wildlife Service and Rafiki Foundation in the local Eburru community.

Each year global #golf tourism industry body IAGTO (International Association of Golf Tour Operators), in partnership with GEO (Golf Environment Organization), celebrates the outstanding sustainability achievements of golf facilities, resorts and destinations around the world.

Alongside her partners, the Great Rift Valley Lodge & Golf Resort will help in restoration of one thousand acres of native forest in Eburru Forest, providing valuable habitat for local wildlife, encouraging biodiversity and protecting watersheds and soil from erosion. The introduction of zebras, impalas, antelopes and reedbucks will also return a balance to the ecosystem and a more natural food-chain cycle.

The Great Rift Valley golf course lies 12 km off the Nairobi to Nakuru highway on the slopes of Eburru Range. From the golf course one can view the Mount Longonot volcano, Lake Naivasha, the Mau escarpment, Mt Kipipiri and the Aberdare ranges. Built to USGA specs with “tiffgreen” grass, the course has 3 par 5’s, 11 par 4’s and 4 par 3’s with the 3rd hole par 3 the most spectacular. Every golf hole is a challenge, with the par 5 - 17th the “signature” hole being 654 yards from the championship tee.

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