Hell’s Gate National Park

Hell’s Gate National Park is a National Park in Kenya that is located on the floor of The Great Rift Valley, south of Fresh Water Lake Naivasha. The Park was established in 1984 and is famous for its spectacular sceneries including towering cliffs, water gorges, geothermal activity, and numerous herds of herbivores like buffaloes, impalas, zebras, elands, and giraffes among others. There are over 100 species of birds in the park recorded, including vultures, Verreaux’s Eagles, augur buzzards, and swifts. The park has no carnivores except hyenas which makes it suitable for biking, camping, rock climbing, and natural spas. The main setting of the 1994 film, The Lion King is heavily modeled after the park, where several lead crew members of the film went to the park to study and gain an appreciation of the environment for the film.
In side Hell’s Gate National Park, is where the first of its kind Olkaria Geothermal Power was built in 1981 to generate geothermal power from underneath hot springs and geysers. The Olkaria geothermal power plant has three stations; Olkaria II, Olkaria III, and Olkaria IV.