Volcanic Menengai crater site turning into virtual death trap
Kenya Forest Service officers at the scene where a body was retrieved at Menengai crater on April 22, 2019. The tourism destination is slowly turning into a death trap. PHOTO | JOHN NJOROGE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
The site attracts thousands of visitors from across the globe.
But lack of a barrier to prevent visitors from sliding into the deep abyss is a clear sign of abandonment.
On May 6, 2003, Fr Michael Kabutu, drove into the crater, plunging to death.
Menengai crater in Nakuru County remains one of Kenya’s most intriguing tourism destinations.
But the crater, one of the largest in the world, appears to have turned into a death trap due to years of neglect by the national and county governments.
