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Lake Naivasha Wildlife Safari: Birds, Biking, and Boating
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43 Ratings
Naivasha
Explore Hell’s Gate, Lake Naivasha, and Crescent Island. Enjoy bird watching, biking, hiking, boat rides, and wildlife encounters. Perfect for adventure seekers and nature lovers.
Explore Hell’s Gate, Lake Naivasha, and Crescent Island. Enjoy bird watching, biking, hiking, boat rides, and wildlife encounters. Perfect for adventure seekers and nature lovers.
Duration:
10 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Hell’s Gate National Park - Morning pick-up at 7.00 am from your Nairobi area hotel or residence and commence the drive to Hell’s Gate National Park with stops at the scenic Rift valley view point. Arrive at around 9 30am and start of the biking tour for 2 hours. Hell’s Gate is one of Kenya’s smaller national parks, which can be explored on foot….
- Hell’s Gate National Park - Morning pick-up at 7.00 am from your Nairobi area hotel or residence and commence the drive to Hell’s Gate National Park with stops at the scenic Rift valley view point. Arrive at around 9 30am and start of the biking tour for 2 hours. Hell’s Gate is one of Kenya’s smaller national parks, which can be explored on foot. This is followed by a bicycle ride amid gracefully grazing gazelles, larger antelopes, Zebras and Giraffe is a delightful experience.
Drive to Naivasha Marina Camp for lunch at 1 pm (own expenses)
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Crescent Island Game Sanctuary - At 2 pm, take a boat-ride at Lake Naivasha to crescent Island Sanctuary for a unique walk with wildlife.
The sanctuary is home for giraffes, water-bucks, elands, wildebeests, zebras, impalas and hippos among other wildlife one is likely to find at the conservancy. Birds include the fish eagles, ospreys, lily-trotters and many more
Later at 5 pm, depart for Nairobi. You will be dropped off at you hotel/ area of residence.
What's Included
- Hotel pick up and drop off
- Lake Naivasha boat fee
- Hells Gate guide
- Hells Gate entry fees
- Crescent Island entry fees
- Bicycle renting charges
- Hotel pick up and drop off
- Lake Naivasha boat fee
- Hells Gate guide
- Hells Gate entry fees
- Crescent Island entry fees
- Bicycle renting charges
What's Not Included
- Lunch(available for purchase)
- Water (only reusable bottled water are allowed)
- Lunch(available for purchase)
- Water (only reusable bottled water are allowed)
Additional Information
This is an excursion focusing on bird life, walking safari on Crescent Island, adventure activities, boat excursion, biking and hiking and small game viewing. Hell’s gate is one of the world’s park where you can walk and ride bicycle while watching animals. While in lake Naivasha boat ride our captain will explain to you different bird species and you…
This is an excursion focusing on bird life, walking safari on Crescent Island, adventure activities, boat excursion, biking and hiking and small game viewing. Hell’s gate is one of the world’s park where you can walk and ride bicycle while watching animals. While in lake Naivasha boat ride our captain will explain to you different bird species and you will see hippos. Get up close with wildlife and be on the lookout for the park’s amazing species.
Location
Hell's Gate National Park
Lake Road South, South of Lake Naivasha
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.9
(43 Ratings)
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158minjan
Nov 22, 2025
Safe, wonderful day at Hells Gate and Crescent Island - A wonderful day and special thanks to lovely driver/guide Jane who was not only great company but also took very good care of me!
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Sarahjbermy
Oct 29, 2025
Long day trip from Nairobi but worth it - Amazing experience and very different to a driving safari. Our guide for two days, David, took us on the long drive to Hells gate national park where we jumped on some bicycles and cruised 5 miles passing zebras and giraffes two name just two! The hike after the cycle was fun and insightful. Then the 5 miles back, be prepared if you are not used to cardio exercise.
Fun cruise around lake Naivasha but the icing on the cake was crescent island a walking safari not to be missed. And one of the highlights of our trip to see these animals so close up.
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J4453rbam
Oct 14, 2025
Totally worth it - My trip to Hell's gate and the lake was great. It started being collected by my driver Nuru, who is a really nice and fun guy. I got to learn so much about Kenya talking to him on the journey there. He is also a very safe driver which I appreciated.
Cycling through the Hell's gate park was really enjoyable, seeing the hyrax up close, the numerous animals close by. It's nice to experience being in a safari environment outside a vehicle - more authentic. My guide Gomez was a great and fun guy, and made the experience very enjoyable. The Lion King sites were very cool to see. Walking the gorge provided great photos.
Later the boat trip onto the lake and seeing the island from the movie Out of Africa was very interesting to witness.
Overall the day trip was very enjoyable and highly recommended.
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Jean-marie
Oct 13, 2025
Perfect day! - It was a perfect day. Our driver Joash was the max, funny, helpful and very friendly. We can definitely recommend him!!!
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B2522oecristinam
Oct 13, 2025
Great tour - Everything was smooth. The tour operators took care of everything and the drivers and guides were really nice! That walking safari is awesome. Highly recommended!
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Gerard
Oct 7, 2025
Absolutely AMAZING!!! Not to mention I had the best guides ever right off the start, David and Fredrick! - If you're in Kenya you should absolutely do this one!! This whole day was amazing! David and Fedrick were such amazing guides. They are very knowledgeable and passionate about Kenya, the animals, and the park. They also took more than an amazing care of me as a tourist! I really couldn't ask for a better experience. Talk about Kenyan welcome and kindness!👏🙌 I'm already looking forward to booking my next excursion!!🙌
Thank you very much for an AMAZING day!
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Momoko
Oct 2, 2025
Tours to see herbivores up close - It was such a fun and exciting tour. Our guide, Joash, was very kind and helped us in various situations. Thank you very much.
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Sightseer26126202979
Sep 5, 2025
Beautiful Scenery, Unforgettable Experience - Our family of four (parents and two kids) are greatly satisfied to have booked this trip. Jane Kale was our driver and main guide: her peaceful demeanor and insightful explanations made our trip pleasant. We were picked up timely in the morning at the hotel in Nairobi and dropped off safely at the end of the day; the scenery on the two-hour trip from Nairobi to Naivasha was magnificent (vast, expansive landscapes); our guide let us make a few stops on the way to take pictures and get souvenirs. The highlight of our trip was definitely the bike ride in Hell's Gate Park: absolutely beautiful and breathtaking mountains and rocks, and several animals (giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, etc.)! We enjoyed great food at the local restaurant recommended by Jane (do order a mixed grill, you'll enjoy it!). The boat trip was also nice: we got to see the "ugly five" on leaf-bare trees (movie-like scenery), hippos resting (much fun!), as well as giraffes, zebras, and other interesting sights on Crescent Island (I do wish the boats were bigger, but the canoes were safely driven to and back from the island). Overall, it was an unforgettable experience and we are grateful for the beauty of Kenya!
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Dreamstakingwings
Sep 2, 2025
Memorable day trip - David our driver picked us right on time and also gave lots of information about Kenya on the way.
We loved the landscape of Hells gate and had a wondeful hike to gorge with our guide Innocent. Then we had a boat ride in Lake Naivasha and ended our day with walking safari on Crescent Island. We saw Giraffe, Zebra, Hippos and Ostrich. It was a very memorable day and definitely worth the visit.
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Aaronjayt
Oct 5, 2025
Recommend - I definitely recommend visiting hells gate and crescent island. Being that close to nature was really a once in a lifetime experience. Meshack my driver was very nice, he gave me information about Nairobi and Kenyan culture. He also saw I was sleepy in the morning and stopped for coffee! I recommend bringing lots of snacks on this tour because I didn’t eat lunch until 3.30pm. This is because of the heavy rain so I went to crescent island before lunch in case the boats stopped to the island. There was confusion about what was included and I ended up paying $25 out of pocket at hells gate, but the tour company arranged a refund of that extra expense afterwards and were very professional.
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