Boat ride in Lake Naivasha
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 3.04 nm
- Elevation gain
- 164 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 190 ft
- Max elevation
- 6,198 ft
- TrailRank
- 30
- Min elevation
- 6,125 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- one hour 8 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1455
- Uploaded
- August 22, 2013
- Recorded
- August 2013
near Naivasha, KE.08 (Kenya)
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Itinerary description
Lake Naivasha is a freshwater lake in Kenya, lying north west of Nairobi, outside the town of Naivasha. It is part of the Great Rift Valley. The name derives from the local Maasai name Nai'posha, meaning "rough water" because of the sudden storms which can arise.
Lake Naivasha is at the highest elevation of the Kenyan Rift valley at 1,890 metres (6,200 ft) in a complex geological combination of volcanic rocks and sedimentary deposits from a larger Pleistocene era lake. Apart from transient streams, the lake is fed by the perennial Malewa and Gilgil rivers. There is no visible outlet, but since the lake water is relatively fresh it is assumed to have an underground outflow.
Although the trail looks like its on ground, actually the water level has risen a lot and we had a boat ride specially to birds so we were moving near the margin.
Lake Naivasha is at the highest elevation of the Kenyan Rift valley at 1,890 metres (6,200 ft) in a complex geological combination of volcanic rocks and sedimentary deposits from a larger Pleistocene era lake. Apart from transient streams, the lake is fed by the perennial Malewa and Gilgil rivers. There is no visible outlet, but since the lake water is relatively fresh it is assumed to have an underground outflow.
Although the trail looks like its on ground, actually the water level has risen a lot and we had a boat ride specially to birds so we were moving near the margin.
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