We checked into our beautiful Sopa Lodge on the Mau escarpment, offering spectacular views over the Rift Valley, Lake Nakuru and surrounding National Park.

After lunch, an afternoon game drive through woods and grasslands, seeing giraffe, baboons, a zebra crossing (haha), some pink flamingos, and a leopard perched on a branch in the distant forest twilight. 

 

 

We would have liked to stay one day longer to try out the beautiful infinity pool, sipping cocktails, looking out over the speccy valley – but it was not in the program! Onwards to Amboseli National Park.