Safari to Lake Victoria Northeast

a lovely and crazily under-visited location

Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater lake in the world, with a surface area of 70,000 square kilometres. It is, however, remarkably shallow for its size, never reaching more than 80 metres in depth.

This section focuses on the part of the lake which lies offshore from Kenya. Please refer to the Lake Victoria North page for the sector that lies off the coast of Uganda.

The lake has had a rather turbulent ecological history in recent decades. Fifty years ago the introduction of Nile perch proved an enormous boon to fishing, whilst at the same time wiping out over 300 endemic fish species.

In more recent times an introduced water hyacinth expanded to completely choke large areas of the lake and only huge investment by the World Bank has managed to bring this under control.

Although the villages along the lake are interesting enough, the main lure for visitors is sport fishing, which is not an occupation we encourage or support.

Despite its proximity to the Maasai Mara and the ease with which the two areas can be connected by light aircraft, it is incredibly rare for our guests to want to visit this area.

Those few people who do visit this Lake Victoria area tend to stay for 2 to 3 nights, usually in combination with popular Kenyan safari areas such as Maasai Mara, Meru, Samburu, as well as time down on the Kenya Coast.

occasionally combined with savanna safari in the Maasai Mara