Thomsons Falls Lodge

In 1883 at the age of 25, Joseph Thomson made a journey commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society in London. It took him through the uncharted land that later became Kenya. He travelled through the mountain range he named Aberdare after the president of the Royal Geographical Society, and his name stuck in the case of Thomson’s gazelle. He was the first to chart the falls of the Nahururu River – now Thomson’s Falls, near the present day town of Nyahururu in the Aberdare Mountains. In 1930, a rambling brick lodge was built with garden views of the falls. Today the lodge is old, ramshackle and greatly need of renovations. Unfortunately, the view of the falls is almost completely blocked by the many souvenir dukas lining the cliff.