Chep’kiit Falls: Where lovers blindly take selfies of death, most victims are local university students

Chep’kiit Falls, loosely translated to mean ‘view from a far’ is where lovers go to inadvertently die about 25 kilometres from Eldoret town. Chep’kiit, according to locals, should be viewed from afar, off the Eldoret-Kapsabet Road. But visitors are lured by its majestic 80-metre falls with rainbow rays before the waters plunge into the rock caves as they flow down Kipkaren river. Many visitors throw caution to the wind and move closer.

The falls are a deathtrap. In three decades, over 300 people have perished there, majority being lovebirds on honeymoon, marking anniversaries or courting couples out for romantic picnics. The place has four view points and along the edges. Visitors enjoy a misty spray with unmatched panoramic view, the canopy of an indigenous forest.
For superlative view of the falls, one has to surmount fear to scale the slippery rocks, exposing themselves to the lurking danger of slipping, as the place is haphazardly fenced.