We left for Hell’s Gate this morning. The hotel was located near to Lake Naivasha, called Fish Eagle Inn. I highly recommend by the way! This was probably my favourite day of the trip – I loved it! We travelled out to Hell’s gate, and got our bikes sorted. David (our tour guide), took us out on our cycling tour. We were all given mountain bikes, which turned out during the course of our tour, to be a little unpredictable, like the gears not working, or one of the breaks broken, but we all managed fine. It was great to be cycling so close to the animals, in the open. We saw water hogs, Zebra’s, Giraffe’s, Buffalo, Impala.
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| Michael, Yannik, Emma, Nora and Damian with David, our guide |
We cycled past Fisher’s Point, and Damian had a small accident, where he fell off his bike. All ok though, just a few grazes to his arm. (Dr Michael had to ascertain that he had his tetanus jab!)
We made it to the Gorge, and climbed down into it, which was fun. We did a bit of scrambling too, which I loved. Of course, David practically ran up the rocks, and 3 of us followed a bit more cautiously behind. David explained it wasn’t too far from Centre Point, but we’d left some of the group behind, so it wasn’t really fair for us to go on further.
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| Damian showing his strength |
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| Nora and Yannik balancing in the rocks |
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| I'm so camouflaged with the rocks! |
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| Damian and Emma |
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| The PULSE volunteers with David |
We returned via the route with hot waterfalls, and rode back on our bikes. It was a steep uphill climb most of the way back.
Nora, unfortunately wasn’t feeling great tonight. She thought it might’ve been a bad egg she ate for lunch.
In the evening, we went hippo hunting. Sadly, we didn’t find any down at the lake. We bumped into the security guard on the way home, and he said he’d show us the hippos. He took us on a different route, and claimed he could see their shadows. I wasn’t so convinced (I think he might’ve just been after the tip!)
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