Located several miles from Kitui-Mutitu road in Nzambani market in Kenya, the stone is colloquially known as the Ivia ya Nzambani and is the largest rock in Kenya at roughly 600 feet (183 meters above the ground). Because Nzambani rock provides a pleasant wind and also views of Kitui County and beyond it, it is a popular tourist attraction. Surely among the biggest stone outcrops in the nation is the Nzambani rock.
Experience with the hiking safari to the summit of the rock, which is the Adult foreigners charged Ksh 1000; the children are charged Ksh 500. Nzambani rock is a main attraction of Kenya safaris in Kitui county. The local adult visitors then pay Ksh 200; the children pay Ksh 100 to climb the rock till it reaches its top. The iron staircase built for the visitors to get to the top of the Nzambani rock is fenced for the benefit of the youngsters and other individuals fearing the height of the rock.
The Nzambani rock evolved as Mzee Kimanzi enarates as the stories about it have become the draw for many visitors. “There was nothing in the place; it was a forest where people used to graze and gather firewood; but, one day the three girls came looking for firewood and one of the girls found a round stone she picked and hid in her chest so she could bring it home to her grandparents to use as pounding tobacco’s he said.”
When the rest of the girls arrived, they discovered that their friend had turned a stone apart from the head. The girls were dressed in animal skin since at that time there were no clothes. After some time the girl who had collected the stone realized it was growing big and heavy and she had to stop gathering firewood. Her name was Nzambaa; she told her companions what happened and asked for their assistance, but they were unable since it was now late and of which wild creatures existed.
“One day a boy said that he wanted to become a woman as he felt women were too much favored and treated better than men,” Mzee Mutunga says. “then when the approached the elders they told him to go around the rock seven times it was very early in the morning, then he did it alone, by evening time he had already turned into a woman.” For everyone who wants to be the opposite sex, the rock is quite amazing; one can visit Nzambani Rock in Kitui. It takes folks about 45 minutes to reach the rock for the safari visitors, allowing them to see the Kitui County 360 degrees.
Nzambani Rock is a safari tourism site in Kitui, Kenya; that is, it has stories around the rock that have since piqued the interest of many visitors in the area and therefore the tourists visit the rock to investigate different stories about the rock.
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