Attractions in Nakuru County
47. Hyrax Hill Museum
North of Lake Nakuru National Park, shortly before arriving at Nakuru Town nearby Shree Jalaram Aradhana Temple, sits the Hyrax Hill Museum, a former farmhouse now containing a sundry display of stone age utensils and tools. It is named after the hyraxes living in cracks within the hills. It was established, in 1943, to depict the lifestyle of seasonal settlement by prehistoric people at least 3,000 years old. The compact museum exhibits the artefacts excavated from the Hyrax Hill archaeological site and from other sites along the Central Rift Valley. For the wayfarer a day at Hyrax Hill, overlooking Lake Nakuru N. Park, offers a laudable viewpoint provided the weather is good. Other areas of interest include the Sirikwa Holes, the nature trail and picnic site, and camping ground. Hyrax Hill Museum is located 4 kms from Nakuru Town along Nakuru-Nairobi Road.
48. Bomas of Nakuru
Akin to its opposite-number in Nairobi, Bomas of Nakuru is an expo of cultures and heritage of diverse Kenyan communities. In fact, the facility is a replica of the Bomas of Kenya, a popular site in the outskirts of Nairobi City near Nairobi National Museum orderly displaying authentic traditional villages with the aim of preserving and promoting the rich and varied cultural core of Kenyan tribes. At Bomas of Nakuru are to be found, in traditional artefacts, houses and diverse mementos of the cultural heritage of Kalenjin, Kamba, Luhya, Mijikenda, Luo, Teso, Embu, Kisii, Kikuyu and Maasai communities. Traditional tools including horns for communication, gourds, grinding stones, traditional stools and pre-colonial identifications and money are all displayed at the facility. It also has a well-tended flower gardens and gorgeous botanical gardens with more than 22 indigenous and medicinal trees adorning the beautiful expansive lawn, a reptile and bird pen, and a restaurant serving nyama choma. It is located 27 kms from Nakuru Town along the B5 Nakuru-Nyahururu-Nyeri Road at the Berea Village.
49. Mariam National Shrine
A 30 kms drive from Lake Elementaita brings you to the junction of B5 Nakuru-Nyahururu-Nyeri Road, just 2 kms before arriving at Nakuru Town. Along this route the views are quite breathtaking. Near Subukia Town the steep slope falls away into the valley and in the distance rises an embracing belt of green county. On the floor of the valley astride Subukia Town sits Village of Mary Mother of God where the Mariam National Shrine is situated. Regular patrons to the place know it as the Subukia National Shrine. Gazetted in 2010 as a National Shrine for its distinguished vocation in spiritual nourishment, it attracts pilgrims and travellers from far and wide. Christened Mary Mother God Chapel its small but iconic Church set at the foot of a scenic hillside has been an extolled sanctum to devote and meditate for many decades. Higher up the hill one finds the Statue of Our Lady, its miraculous spring of water, and also the Crown of Mary Shrine.
50. Subukia Valley
End to end, the 11 kms drive along the winding road across the Subukia Valley – trending northwest to southeast – is one of exceptional and engrossing views. Sometimes cites as Bahati-Subukia Horst, this valley is structurally an outlying spur of the Rift Valley’s eastern wall, both from a tectonic viewpoint and from the nature of its component rocks coinciding with part of the main eastern wall of the Rift Valley. By the same token, it is a result of major faulting originating the Rift Valley which caused the enormous displacement along the escarpment. The actual faults are mostly obscured by later eruptions and faults that include the Subukia earthquake of 1928 measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale noted as the largest recorded seismic event along Kenya’s Rift, yet, rather unorthodox to the cast of Rift Valley’s character in which large earthquakes are rarely anticipated.
51. Nakuru North Cemetery
The Nakuru North Cemetery is situated just outside of the main Nakuru Town close to Nakuru War Memorial Hospital and ASK Nakuru Showground. Shortly before driving into Nakuru Town (if approaching from Nairobi) about 500 ms ahead of the first roundabout, take the right turn onto B4 Nakuru-Sigor Road indicated by direction signs; before crossing the railway bridge. B4 road curves around behind railway housing until it reaches the cemetery. The entrance to the large civil cemetery is indicated by a direction sign, and the war graves will be found mostly within, or close to, the two main burial plots on the southern side of the cemetery. Most of the First World War burials in Nakuru North Cemetery date from November 1918 and were made from the convalescent camps at Nakuru. “During the Second World War there was a Royal Air Force Flying Training School at Nakuru and various camps and establishments in and near the town. These included an OCTU at Njoro and another at Londiani. The cemetery now contains 27 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 45 from the Second World War. There are also two non-war burials found in the cemetery”. Nakuru North Cemetery is open daily between 06:00 and 18:00.
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