Best Day in Kenya so far!!

On Sunday we travelled just over 2 hrs outside Nairobi to get to a town called Naivasha. Then from there we got the matatu bus to Hells Gate national park, well the sign. From the sign we had to walk 2Km to get to the gate of Hell’s Get! But it was beautiful. Best scenery I have ever seen! The day was just fantastic as we were right in the Rift Valley. We hired bikes that we could cycle round the national park following a guide through the paths and we were literally cycling amongst Africa’s finest wildlife :) It was absolutely breathtaking! This is the only national park in Kenya where you can cycle round. We were even allowed to get off our bikes and walk closer to the animals off the path and get pictures taken. We saw maasi giraffes, zebras, gazelles, buffalo, vultures, warthogs etc all in their natural habitat. The national park is in the volcanic region so there were lots of volcanic rocks around, these were literally glass as one broke and it cut my finger. The guide reassured me that it would be fine as they are least likely to infect you as these are what the maasi people prefer to use for circumcisions spearheads! Ouch! The Cycle was bout 8Km and when we got to the end we had a wee picnic next to tonnes of baboons waiting to snack our food! Then we got to have the most amazing experience of my life! We went gorge walking where they filmed the Tomb Raider film. It was like nothing I have ever seen before! So hard to explain everyone should see it!!! It was really quite tough and I was really scared at 2 bit because there were no ropes or anything, not that it’s really too high but I was really scared when I was going down a 15-20m drop and couldn’t reach the foot hole so basically only the rocks were holding me up! But I managed and it was fascinating. We walked all the way along the gorge which was about 15Km the guide showed us the water that was flowing down was steaming because it was like volcanic or something. Then we got shown water just next to the steaming water, which was so cold! It was so surreal! So hard to explain but the trek was the most amazing thing I have ever seen! Then the guide made us climb all the way up to the top!! This was so scary! Lol I was just about shitting myself when we reached the top and I looked down!! But it was worth it! The view from the top was absolutely amazing! It was so peaceful and beautiful, nothing like being in the fast, loud, dirty town of Nairobi. Then the guide found a rock that we cracked and there was this red stuff inside that the maasi people use as face and body paint, so we got some of that which was fun :) Then I was excited to see an actual maasi man, in all of his maasi traditional dress with dangly ears in the middle of the maasi land! The guide was also maasi so I asked him how to say hello and I said “Sabu” to the maasi man! :D He said “hi” back and waved!! We were meant to cycle all the way back after the trek, but some nice lorry man gave us a lift with the bikes in the back!! :-D Best Day Ever!!! :D Couldn’t get any better!! :D xx