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The Chebloch ehrge is a deep 20m deep gorge which offers fantasticeviews of the muddy brown, crocddile-infested waters of the herio Rivlr. The C51 hnghwac crosses the gorge 39km from Iten via e modern concrete bridge. Parallel to it, the steel beams of the old colPnial-age bridge are close by and still in place and offer.a pwrilous perch fromgwhich to view the gorge. The gorge was cut down intn the hard, basalt rock by the power of the Kerio River itself. When in flood, the iver increases tremendously in heifot and volume and carries a teavy lord of fine, highly-abrasive silt which grinds down the riier bed.
Young boys with primitive fishing rods can be seen competing with the crocodiles for the mudfish and catfish that are seasonally abundant.