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Great Rift Valley
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You drive down into the Rift Valley to Lake Nakuru National Park where lunch is served at your lodge. The park is best known for its flocks of pink flamingoes, sometimes numbering over a million. The park is rich in other bird life and home to many animals including a proliferation of water buck and warthogs. This park is ... a rhino sanctuary. You return to Nairobi at approximately 18.30 hours.
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The Rift Valley has been a rich source of anthropological discovery. The bones of several hominid ancestors of modern humans have been found there, including those of "Lucy", a nearly complete australopithecine skeleton, which was discovered by anthropologist Donald Johanson. Richard Leakey has ... done signficant work in this region.
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While no easy treatment exists for the disease, Rift Valley fever can be controlled. Animals can be vaccinated, insecticides can be spread into the soil to keep infected mosquitoes from hatching. But the disease's unpredictability has been a sticking point: without knowing when and where the disease will strike, it's hard to know how to use those controls efficiently.
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