Attractions in Siaya County
25. Siaya County Club
Siaya Town, similar to its opposite-number Bondo, has a handful of hotels that serve as useful jumping-off places to Siaya County. Among these, Siaya County Club features a bar and a garden. Other amenities here include its restaurant, a 24-hour front desk and room service, outdoors gazebos and free reliable WiFi throughout the property. There are family rooms too. The hotel is of a modern touch, its rooms spacious and tastefully furnished with standard utilities. Other laudable accommodations in Siaya include Siala Apartments, and Rozala Hotel.
26. Holy Got Adodi
The rock formation of Holy Got Adodi is to Siaya County what Kit Mikayi is to Kisumu County. Its appellation as Adodi justifies its function and resemblance to Adodi Rock at Got Ramogi. Adodi, or the whistling stone, atop Boro Hills, is surmised to whistles, which, accompanied by singing to help distract the mind from its worries, passes on a message from ancestors. Both Kit Mikayi and Holy Got Adodi rock formations are associated with traditional religious powers. In the foregone days, both these rock formations served as a shrine and sacrifices were offered to ancestors inside the caves found at the base of the formations. “Today, when referring to the relationship between geology and religion, people usually think immediately of Christian (and other) fundamentalists and their chronic palaeontological illiteracy leading to creationism, to intelligent design, and to a distrust of science in general and especially geology, palaeontology and evolutionary biology. Thus the relationship of geology and religion is usually considered to be under strain. However, outside this specific field of conflict, there does not seem to be a relationship at all” – M. Kölbl-Ebert . To get to the site from Siaya Town you drive out on C30 Siaya-Rhambwa-Nyadorera Road to Boro Market 7.5 kms away the onto an all weather road for 4 kms to the rocks. Locals at Boro Center are usually friendly enough to give directions to the place.
27. Kalenjuok Tinga Dam
The Kalenjouk Tinga Dam 2 kms southwest of Boro Market via Boro-Lake Basin Road is worth a look-see by motorists aiming for Uwasi Rice Schemes. It is tiny, about 0.5 km2, encompassing a fecund swamp containing plenty of birds and a bucolic setting deep in the countryside. Into the bargain, it lies adjacent to the rocky Gang and Kalenjuok Hills which are ideal for rock climbing activities and and pretty sceneries. The caves of Gang and Kalenjuok that shelter the famous laughing hyenas of Got Ager, or the dreaded Owls, has populations of wild pigs and vervet monkeys. Lake Kanyaboli is also accessible via the Lake Basin Road.
28. Uwasi Rice Scheme
Also known as Muluhwa Rice Scheme, in Alego-Usonga, this community based irrigation scheme along the lower end of the Nzoia River covers an area of 760-acres where rice is grown and sold for commercial use and subsistence use. The main water sources for irrigation within the area comes from the Nzoia River, which also waters close by Bunyala Rice Farms in neighbouring Busia County, as it flows through the Rift Valley, Western and Nyanza Regions to terminate at Lake Victoria at Yala Swamp. Although tourism realization is still behind hand, the area is ideal for agro-tourism and bird watching. Birding Paradise, a homely two-bedrooms privately-run guesthouse, is available to rent next to Uwasi Rice Scheme and has many trees to give the guest a chance to sight birds of different species. Lake Kanyaboli is also near for sundowners, boat rides and guided bird watching. It is found nearby Nyadorera Centre at the northwest corner of Siaya County, 21 kms northwest of Siaya along C30 Siaya-Rhambwa-Nyadorera Road.
29. Naya Hills
From Siaya Town there are three routes to join the B1 Kisumu-Busia Road: C29 Siaya-Ng’iya-Luanda Road to Luanda Town, C28 Siaya-Uyoma Road to Rangala and Segere-Ambiya Road to Ugunja Town. The low-lying Naya Hills are found at Naya (South Uyoma) Rarieda Sub-county along C28. The spectacular view of the hills from a distance makes it a perfect tourist destination for hikers with an array of hills to climb. Their rocky geological profile also makes it a noteworthy roosting location for migratory and other species of birds. Other wildlife species found here are Colobus monkeys, various species of snakes, hogs and antelopes.
30. Anyiko Wetland
Anyiko Wetland is a permanent riverine wetland within Anyiko sub-location of northeast Ugenya. It is the largest wetland at the easternmost section of the mid-lower River Nzoia, and is longish shaped with an average length of 10 km and width of about 700 ms. The wetland is an important habitat diverse birds. Anyiko Wetland is located 22 kms from Siaya via Siaya-Ugunja-Bar Ober Road.
31. Chief Odera Akang’o Cells & Office
42 kms from Kisumu City (going through Kisian, Maseno and Luanda) brings one to Yala Town at the northeast corner of Siaya County. Fabulous scenery en route, especially over the shoulder of Nyando Escarpment near Maseno and the subsequent ascent to the higher areas of Western Kenya. Between Maseno and Luanda the road stitches out of Kisumu to Vihiga County before entering Siaya County. At Yala one would be interested in sighting Chief Odera Akang’o Cells and Office. Chief Odera Akang’o, renown as a no-nonsense administrator, was a big advocate for formal education in the early and mid 19th Century, way long before Kenya attained independence. During Chief Odera’s time at the helm, attending school was compulsory, failure to which both parents and students faced consequences including a jail term. Subsequently, the area around Gem became famous as the home of professors, and by the same token Siaya County earned its express approval as the “home of heroes”. The University College at Gem was named in his merit. Chief Odera’s Cells and Office stand at Yala Town.
32. Grace Ogot Mausoleum
This site, enclosing the interment space of Grace Ogot, is a propitious heritage resource in terms of the systematic exposition in a photographic gallery of her life and times and sundry ideas of the history of Kenya through the lens of her allotted span: All her ideas supported by a library set up by Professor Bethwell Ogot. Opened in 2016 at their country home at Gem, this celebrates the life and times of Grace Emily Ogot, a half of this remarkable writing couple married for 56 years, who passed on March 18, 2015. Grace Ogot is best known for her great book The River and the Source published in 1995. A captivating and well told story spanning cultures and generations. It tells the tale of three generations of women and traces the story of Akoko in her rural customary Luo mise en scène, through to her children who live and die during the 20th Century. The book, in its dying embers extinguishes the life of Awiti after she had buried her mother many years ago in Aluor besides Akoko. “It is an epic story that spans cultures; that is filled with tragedy, laughter and tears”. Grace Ogot delivered a breathless and effortless spiel in promotion of cultural anectodes. Bethwell Allan Ogot, her husband and curator of the mausoleum, is one of the great historians Kenya has yet been blessed with and the former President of the UNESCO International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa, 1978-1983.
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