The Oloolua Nature Trail
Forested river trail with a waterfall, a bat-filled Mau Mau hideout cave, and resident monkeys.
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This guide to the Oloolua Nature Trail outside Nairobi starts at an abandoned wooden platform once built high in the canopy for a crowned eagle pair that researchers hoped to keep nesting there. It follows the Mbagathi River past a waterfall, old colonial-era water pumps still chugging in the forest, and a deep cave said to have sheltered Mau Mau fighters in the 1950s. Along the way you'll meet the trail's real long-term residents, the Sykes' monkeys overhead. Listen as you walk from the eagle tower down toward the sound of falling water.
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