Lake Naivasha Boat Ride | Ultimate Safari Guide & Safety
Lake Naivasha boat rides generally cost $45–$60 per person for an hour and operate daily between 7:00 AM and 6:00 PM. The standard safari takes you close to pods of hippos and prime birdwatching spots like Crescent Island, where you can see African fish eagles, pelicans, and cormorants.
A boat Ride on Lake Naivasha provides a distinctive and unforgettable experience, enabling exploration of the lake’s natural splendour and fauna. It is an excellent opportunity to observe hippos, many avian species, and appreciate the landscape.
Boating on Lake Naivasha
Lake Naivasha at over 6,000 feet is the tallest lake in the Great Rift Valley and surely one of the most picturesque. This is an excellent area for bird photography, fringed by papyrus and with the extinct Mount Longonot as a backdrop.
Loldia House has a resident ornithologist who can happily take you on a boat trip around Lake Naivasha or game drives to identify a wide diversity of birds.
You’ll see long-tailed and great cormorants drying their wings, pink-backed pelicans, herons, a variety of brightly coloured kingfishers, and of course the renowned African fish eagle out on the water. Other species seen near the lake are the Goliath herons, African jacanas, big white egrets, white-fronted bee-eaters and saddle-billed storks.
You might also get to see plenty of hippos, reedbucks, giraffes, wildebeests and monitor lizards along the lakefront.