Trailing Kahunira- Nature’s Therapy

Getting Lost in Githunguri’s Kahunira Trails.

Nature Trail is one of the most fun­da­men­tal get­away activ­i­ties one could want, just to wind down and have a beau­ti­ful week­end after a very tire­some week. But a trail with Pulse Havens Group would make it bet­ter- be ready for excit­ing road trip cou­pled with laugh­ter, games and friend­ly inter­ac­tions.

If you ever want a day in the nature’s most breath-tak­ing begin­ner expe­ri­ence, Kahu­ni­ra Falls is your des­ti­na­tion. Step­ping out of the city would do you good if your des­ti­na­tion is just about 50 kilo­me­tres- a day’s trip doesn’t have to be a long one espe­cial­ly when you want to expe­ri­ence at least 5‑hour long nature trail and water­fall chase.

The adven­ture high­lights

• Hike: Mod­er­ate
• Loca­tion- Githun­guri, Dis­tance: 10km.
• Water­falls
• For­est Trails
• High Pipes cross­ing
• Duff Mpara­ro (Swim­ming in the falls)

A rainy Sun­day morn­ing of 6^th April 2025 would mark just our sec­ond trip as Pulse Havens Tours, but the first in Githun­guri based Kahu­ni­ra Falls. Maybe the weath­er was an indi­ca­tion of a suc­cess­ful day in prospect- for the day ahead would be filled with excit­ing under­tak­ings, which would be etched in the mem­o­ries of adven­tur­ers, present or oth­er­wise.

It is uni­ver­sal­ly agreed that a tour organiser’s great­est night­mare is time keep­ing. Tell me why a 7.00 a.m. sched­uled depar­ture from Nairo­bi would be extend­ed by two hours and more, Grace Murigi’s late­ness or miss­ing at all, to blame- it was until just after 9 a.m. that we decid­ed to pro­ceed, liv­ing her behind.

Now, a good road-trip needs good music playlist and Eli­jah did this per­fect­ly. Per­haps that’s why we almost missed the final turn- sooth­ing music has that effect on peo­ple. Even bet­ter, every music request was hon­ored, includ­ing Abuya’s request of Def Rebel, specif­i­cal­ly Jey Uso’s Main Event-ish.

The trail was rather mod­er­ate (Your fit­ness jour­ney doesn’t nec­es­sar­i­ly need gym. Pulse Havens Group is here to help you out). The first hour would see a long trail towards the first high pipes, ten (10) meters above the ground. Believe us when we talk about breath-tak­ing adven­tures. This spe­cif­ic one was so breath­tak­ing our pho­tog­ra­ph­er decid­ed to take pic­tures from below the pipes, just a few inch­es from the flow­ing rivers. (He did not fall, he just could not defy the law of grav­i­ty).

The first water­fall was call­ing us in full names and the least we could do is respond. Swim­ming is an option…but this needs swim­mers. Peo­ple like Ian and Ger­ald could not move in the deep waters. Under­stand the breeze was too cool we found our­selves enjoy­ing the view and the waters for almost eter­ni­ty. This was the case for the sec­ond water­fall and the third…. Due to floods, we could not vis­it the fourth one.

A beau­ti­ful mis­take is spend­ing two hours in a water­fall before fig­ur­ing out how to climb a hill. Good climb­ing gears is very much need­ed if you don’t want to end up like Were, our pho­tog­ra­ph­er. Free fall was ide­al­ly dis­cov­ered in his favor.

The adven­tur­ous day would end with the group enjoy­ing deli­cious meal, telling the best of sto­ries and appre­ci­at­ing each other’s com­pa­ny. We would then be Nairo­bi-bound.