A plank straddles a thick band of the chocolate- coloured river. It looks too fragile to drive the car over, so we park by the side and walk on it instead. Just then, a local farmer drives over the bridge, dispelling our fear of its fragility. But since we're out of the car, Sylvia decided that we might as well explore the terrain on foot and calls to a man tilling the land to ask if there's anything of interest in the vicinity. "Ndio" he repiles in swahili, there is a waterfall and he points towards it. From the angle we are standing it looks like a mini replica of the mighty Victoria Falls of the "smoke and thunders" as the Zimbabweans call it. It i almost a horse shoe shape, with roaring waters falling over the edges. Zillions of droplets rise over it's edges from the crash of the water creating what looks like a smoke screen rising from below. This is the tana river. The water fall is spectacular and off the beaten track. The water below cascades through the land weaving a brown thread through the a jungle green. The Tana is Kenya's longest rive and it glides through the Aberdares and the southern slopes of Mount Kenya, coursing it's way down stream through the dry lands of Garsen, Garissa and Tsavo and finally entering the Indian Ocean at the coast. The journey is 1000kilometers long. Driving back we divert to Hombe forest, where on the side of the road a floating barge catches our interest. It is a fish nursery for tiny fishlings. 

Rupi Daily Nation  14/10/2007