These remote and wild parks, along with Sibiloi National Park, are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The park offers visitors some stunning scenery and excellent bird-watching opportunities with flamingos, pelicans and water birds.

Central island National Park - Three crater lakes - Crocodile Lake, Flamingo Lake, & Tilapia Lake, Active volcano.

It is an important stopover for migrant waterfowl, home to large breeding colonies of hippo and Nile crocodile and also has several species of venomous snakes. South Island is also the home of the El-Molo tribe, of which there are only thought to be 500 individuals.

Central Island National Park is difficult to reach and is in effect a small active volcano with three saline carter lakes known as Flamingo, Crocodile and Tilapia. It is believed to support the world’s largest population of Nile crocodiles Along the shoreline, there are plains and grevy’s zebra, topi, oryx, reticulated giraffe, greater kudu and Grant’s gazelle. 

One of the  main event in this circuit is the annual camel derby, other activities here include game watching , ballooning, camel riding, fishing, horse riding and mountain biking. Other parks and attraction in the  North Rift Region Kenya Safari Circuit include;

Laikipia National Reserve
Marsabit National Reserve
Nasalot National Reserve
Sibiloi National Park
South and Central Island National Park
South Turkana National Reserve

See also: Other Kenya Safari Circuits