Hells Gate National Park

 This park is a beau, during the day...

My full experience... So we arrived there one morning paid for everything and visited Olkaria, the springs (they say the water there makes your skin soft and smooth), this may have been true for others but I itched like there was no tomorrow(I got to discover places that could itch on my body that I never knew would) Anyway the real experience was yet to come, we were camping inside the park that night (I was yet to see a clip that was going round of a woman camped at the park saying shoo to a lion).So, I had confidence in the experience yet,and I had seen the guards tent on-site (or so I thought) Evening came,the guards tent turned out to be another camper (big deal, right), we set a camp fire ( there are demarcated places) and started roasting meat, you know, that’s when the hyenas started laughing at us ( the sounds they make),we were able to eat without any problems ( by the way if you are a woman, make sure to walk with a man in tow, especially during the day because of the Baboons- that’s a story for another day).At around midnight guards came on patrol,they looked as if they were looking for something, when we asked they told us it was just a routine check (am old enough now to know that nothing is ever routine if it seems odd). Well so we all went to sleep, you know we’d been told the dangerous animals are rarely seen.So in the middle of the night my husband (then boyfriend) insisted on walking all the way to where the bathroom blocks were ( you know how it is in this stage of relationships) despite the fact that I had asked him to consider opening the tent an inch or so and directing it somewhere. And so he went,in a few minutes someone jumped in my tent with a speed that could be admirable at the olympics.He came in with the shakes the likes I may never see again.So the man was holding me and telling me if he was to die,at least we would be next to one another.Me being a therapist then ( amid the panic) took him through deep breathing at least,then he told me of the animal that he had seen that had gone directly for him the moment he was out of the tent and at considerable speed (until today we’ve never known what kind it was and I wouldn’t care to now either). Then my panic kicked in,I had to clamp down on my teeth to stop myself from joining in the trembling because a trembling competition wouldn’t have changed anything.So I decided to just be calm since it would also calm my man.Then I prayed & prayed and asked God if He allowed us see the morning then I would never do that again. Morning came and our tent looked like it had been rained on from the inside (full of moisture), it was even dripping from the side ( from our breathing) To cut the long story short,that’s how the two day camping experience was turned into one and we moved out of the park to go camp elsewhere. Enjoy your camping experience.