Down into the Rift Valley

After a good sleep, a healthy breakfast and picking Lucy up, we headed towards Iten on the edge of the rift valley. There were some pleasant views on the way (and some amazingly bad “tarmac” road).

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Iten is where many of Kenya’s long distance runners come from, and we saw runners and cyclists in training.

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Kerio View is a hotel / restaurant / view point hanging on the edge of the valley, overlooking the Kerio river way below.DSC_0010

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The gardens have many lovely flowers

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The views are spectacular, but hard to capture on a hazy day

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Maybe a panorama does better

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The escarpment drops to a flatter area, then drops again towards the valley floor.

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A crocodile sculpture

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And his smaller cousin

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We went on to Iten town, which had a massive market where we bought some lunch items

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Down on the terrace, looking back at the escarpment

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Looking down into the valley

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Tarok Falls – we could have hiked in to the falls, but it’s a half day trip

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Interesting flora

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Looking up

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A kind of starling

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At our lunch stop, swarms of ladies descended on us trying to sell us their produce, but we already had most of what we need (but we did buy 3 mangoes for 20/-, that’s about 5p each. Lucy loved the water.

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Back near Iten

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Then back to Eldoret for tea, then into town for dinner and football!

 

2 Comments

  1. John Chenery says:

    Is that Glastonbury Tor in the first photo??

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