Amusing, this is the only blot on the landscape of the awesome Hell’s Gate Naivasha. Driving a few kilometers back down the Moi South Lake Naivasha Road and just a turn you feel the presence of once a tributary of a prehistoric lake that fed the early humans in the Great Rift Valley. Hell's Gate National Park is named after a narrow break in the cliffs, once a tributary of a prehistoric lake that fed early humans in the Rift Valley. It received the name "Hell's Gate" by explorers Fisher and Thomson in 1883. It was established in 1984. It is known for its wide variety of wildlife and for its scenery. This includes the Fischer's Tower and Central Tower columns and Hell's Gate Gorge. The national park is also home to three geothermal power stations at Olkaria, one of its kinds in Africa.
Hell’s Gate park striking feature is that you can walk or even cycle along with youngsters on the smooth dirt roads and mingle quite happily with the wild. The game view ranges from herds of gazelle, hartebeest, eland buffalo and the occasional giraffe where the animals seem oblivious of people. If one is lucky you will be able to see the elegant cats and you can’t miss seeing baboons. There are over 100 species of birds in the park, among them, Vultures; Eagles that nest on the cliffs; flocks of swifts hurrying for flying insects when darkness falls. In addition, up on the cliffs there are Klipspringer antelopes and the rare chandlers mountain reed bucks.
The landscape itself strikes out Hell’s Gate to be its own unique beauty. In history this was the outlet of a prehistoric lake that stretched from what is now Naivasha to what is now Nakuru. You are ushered in with the flat grass land with high cliffs; ahead there is the Fischer’s tower, a tall spike of rock named after Gustav Aldolf Fisher, a German explorer who “discovered” Naivasha in 1883.
The park is equipped with three basic campsites. There are also several lodges around Naivasha Lake, popular among tourists for watersports, bird and game viewing in private ranches and walks along Crescent Island, Crater Lake, and Mt. Longonot. The going down the devil’s bedroom is very steep, not always obvious and also quite slippery at some places. But the effort is well worth it, being magical, memorable down there that you would wish to experience.
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