Van Wicker’s Cave
Unusual Attractions Kericho
Van Wicker’s Caves: An Emergency Foxhole
Put together around 1956 by Major Douglas Van Wicker, a settler farmer, who used the underground hiding-place in the 1950’s during the country’s state of emergency and suppression of Mau-Mau insurgency. With most of the Mau Mau fighters hidden deep in the forests of central Kenya and neighbouring regions, it proved difficult to hunt them down. By 1952, the conflict was threatening to spiral out of control, forcing the colonial government to declare a state of emergency, shocking parvenu settlers into suddenly realizing that they were no longer safe.
“The cave built by Wicker on his farm 53 years ago has one entrance branching into two chambers: the one to the left measures about 100 metres and the other one goes in nearly 80 metres. The entrance is almost half a metre high while the interior measures approximately two metres vertically”. Interestingly, Wicker’s Cave, contrived hidden near a hill in the 540-acres Kapwicker Farm, recently renamed as the Sarout Farm, remained unknown until only a few year ago. Van Wicker’s Cave is set in Kipkelion West near Fort Ternan, 50 km from Londiani.
Around Kenya are a selection of natural landmarks, cultural shrines, architectural oddities, and technological installations that offer incredible, almost surreal experiences that can make you feel as if you’ve stepped into another world. Hauntingly beautiful to some, eerie sights for others, and still, for others, down right strange, these site provide unique experiences for adventurous travelers.
Index of Unusual Attractions Around Kenya
Baringo County - Olduka (Mogotio) Valley, Busia County - The Alupe Leprosy Centre , Elgeyo Marakwet County - Kipteberr , Isiolo County - Magado Crater , Magado Cave Dwellings , Nantudu Spire Rock , Merti Catholic Church , Buffalo Springs , Harr Girrissa , Kericho County - Van Wicker's Cave , The Kipkelion Monastery , Kilifi County - Hell's Kitchen , Luigi Broglio Space Centre , Ngomeni Shipwreck , Kwale County - Three Sisters Caves, Mrima Hills Rare Earth Mine , Laikipia County - Sirmon & Nyariginu Confluence, Lamu County - The Lamu Donkey Sanctuary , Machakos County - Komarock Shrine , Kituluni Magical Hill , Makueni County - Kenze Gorges , Virgin Mary Shrine , Emali Trig , Holy Nzaui Rock , Mandera County - Marehan Sandstone , Marsabit County - Chalbi Desert, Meru County - Mystical Lake Nkunga , The Giant Footprints , Mombasa County - Kizingo , Mbaraki Pillar , Muranga County - Muranga Gorges , Nakuru County - Longonot Earth Station, Menegai, The Djinn House, Diana Caldwell's Shrine, Nandi County - Sheu Morobi Cliffs , Kopere Rocks , Nyandarua County - The Kinangop Step , Wanjohi Happy Valley , Dragon's Teeth , Nyeri County - Italian Memorial Church & Somali Wall, Taita Taveta County - The Taita Skull Caves , Shetani Lava , Yatta Springs , Nyiri Taru Desert , Crystal Caves at Lake Chala , Salaita (Slaughter) Hill , Haunted Sniper's Tree , Turkana County - Kapedo Falls, Lake Alablab, The Turkana Boy Monument, Samburu County - Samburu Singing Wells , Ngurunit Pools & Slides , Mystical Emuruangogolak , Vihiga County - Wagevere Rock , Nganyi Rainmakers Forest , Wajir County - Shaletey Caves
Located in southwestern part of Kenya within the former Rift Valley Province, Kericho County, a healthful highland, has innumerable picture-postcard tea-farm vistas. Kericho County is famous for its vast tea plantations. It is all around a tea-riffic countryside clutching traditions and culture with one hand and a forward-looking yen on the other. It is home to large forests, historic sites and resorts, too.
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35 Destinations in Kericho County , arranged as one would visit these - east, north, south then west - with aid of narratives, images, strip maps and distance chart:
Mau Forest Reserve , Chereres Waterfalls , A.I.C Kericho , Chesumot Estate , Chagaik Arboretum , Chesumot Dam, Kimugu River Lodge , James Finlays Tea Factory , Dimbolil Dam , The Sacred Heart Cathedral , A.C.K Kericho , Kericho Golf Club , Gurdwara Sahib , Kericho Wagon Works , Kericho Tea Hotel , Chebown Sanctuary , Chelimo Arboretum , Tagabi Monkey Sanctuary , Changoi Tea Estate , Chebulu Conservancy , The Kiptui Falls, Kapkatet Kipsigis Cultural Museum , The Tulwap-Kipsigis Hill , Londiani-Koru-Awasi Route , Londiani Dam , Masaita Forest Station , KFC Hospitality Centre , Londiani Falls , Kimasian Railway Bridge , Kiminket Garden, Kipkelion Monastery , The Van Wicker's Cave , Fort Tenan Pre-Historic Site , Tinderet Mountain , Ole Soi Resort , Bagao Caves
Know More About Kericho County: Its Geography, Land-Use, Highlights, Population, Roads - including a distance chart, Airports, Climate & National Monuments
What’s The Air Like In Kericho?
The annual mean temperature ranges between 29 o C and 10 o C. The central part of the county, where tea is grown, receives the highest rainfall.
What’s The Lay Of The Land In C.35?
Kericho has an undulating topography, with the overall slope of the land being to the west – forming a hilly shelf between the Mau Hills and the lowlands of Kisumu.
