Lake Turkana is an enormous inland sea, in addition is known to be the deserted largest lake in the world (with a total area around 6,405 sq km). This particular body of saline water is more than 250 km long, which is a little longer when compared with the complete coast of Kenya.

Lake Turkana is far and wide well-known as the Jade Sea, as of the outstanding, almost luminous, color of the waters of the lake. Subsequent to a long journey all the way through the scorching deserts in addition to lava flows from Northern Kenya, the spectacle of this enormous body of dazzling turquoise water approaches as an absurd, ghostly vision.

Lake Turkana is a starting place of life for a number of the majority remote tribes in Kenya. The Turkana Lake, with inherited ties to th regions of Uganda, survive a semi-nomadic subsistence in the region of the Lake. The smallest tribe of the country, the El Molo, survives a hunter-gatherer continuation on the seashores, in the various villages of characteristic curved reed huts.

Lake Turkana history has been for all times regarded as one of the few longest living histories all across the earth, in addition to current fossil proof uncovered at Koobi Fora has shown a way to the Lake moreover is now mentioned as referred ‘The Cradle of Mankind’.

This particular site is located at the core of the Sibiloi National Park, which is regarded as a place of barren prettiness as well as antediluvian scared forests.

Lake Turkana is itself is a wonderful natural treasure, with the single largest crocodile population in the world. In Lake Turkana these huge reptiles grow up to record size, in the company of a number of the biggest specimens that are sited on far-off inhospitable Central Island.

Lake Turkana is known to be the most remote destination in Kenya, however one that reimburses the fearless traveler with well-off rewards…

Getting around Lake Turkana

There are exceptionally few definite roads in the region of the Lake Turkana. The shore of the lake can be easily explored simply by walking, however profusion of water as well as a superior sense of course are mutually essential. Boats are on hand for rent in villages by the side of the shore, furthermore this is the most excellent way to travel around the lake. Getting a local tour guide for far tourists is suitable.

The place came into limelight when Richard Leakey found fossils of 3 million years ago while he was evacuating Koobi Fora in 1968, some 80 years ago an Austrian explorer claimed to have found human skulls and bones at this site.

The Omo River flowing across Ethiopia is responsible for feeding the Lake Turkana. The water is lost mainly due evaporation. Both on and off shore wind are really strong due to lake’s characteristic feature of getting warm and cool slower than land.

There are numerous living beings surviving in the region which would you surprise as you would have thought there would not be much to see in this hot and arid region.

You would be delighted to see thousands of Niles crocodiles and the crocodiles hatch from April to May. Camels, zebra, snakes, hippos, fishes and giraffes are some creatures found here. You would also be able see some of the rare species of birds here like the Little Stint, the Wood Sandpiper. If you are a keen bird watcher then visit this place anytime between October and April, it’s the best time to view migratory bird.

You must learn some important words in local language like thank you and sorry to further involve yourself in the journey, quite true that everyone loves to talk in their mother tongue.

African Safari is always in demand and extremely adventurous and to make your experience more enriching you must include in your trip the visit to Turkana. The visit would prove to be worthy once you reach the place no doubt you would required to keep your nerves cool and heart strong as the journey is immensely tough and exhausting. You would realize that how even animals have learned to deal with the adversity of the nature and tribes live in such compromising physical conditions and meager facilities.

You can take a charted plane and fly to Turkana but it would steal the great adventurous moments which you can get by following the roadways no doubt the journey would be really long then.