Chebulu, a Rainforest in Semi Arid Climate

"Chebulu became animal home by default; the surrounding niche is harsh –bare ground, hard wood, unpalatable vegetation for the wild game."

Standing proud at the edge of Sigowet is Chebulu picturesque, a scenery spared by the harsh sun. Chebulu, a mid a semi arid climate, covers the fountain of Kaplelartet stream.
Going down Kaplelartet, Sondu-Kisumu highway, you are attracted by a spectacle of alone green forest, the size of Sosiot trading centre, at the foot a stretching cliff.
A one hour ride from Sigowet takes visitors to the eye-catchy greenness that sprouts in rich soil, water trickle at the rock nourishing and changing the vegetation to that of a tropical forest.
The brilliant weather inspires local tourist and the scholars alike to take boda boda ride to the site. The serene geography is rich for curious young scholars for its topography, elements of rift valley, thriving tropical vegetation, and weathering rocks.
Although rugged, it is easy to get around. As you walk deeper, you discover it is also a wild home. Chebulu harbours antelopes, gazelles, monkeys and their kind. It became animal home by default; the surrounding niche is harsh –bare ground, hard wood, unpalatable vegetation for the wild game. The zone is sheltered from the human by the stretching cliff, standing sixty metres high.
The wider vegetation dubbed ‘vain greenness’, is a raised ground overlooking Nyabondo plateau that holds no water source. Down the valley, at the floor, Chebulu gets water to support the sky rocketing indigenous trees, and monkeys and their kind, giving it a different image consequently.
To leisure in Chebulu, you have to visit in dry season, preferably december, or early months of the year when animals barely walk the burning gravel outside the site. Thus animals leisure in the thick forest, around the water fall –they too find it ecstatic. The best is the southern side where the colony of monkeys basks on the rock combing hair. It is, however, unfavourable to rain when you are in the forest –sloppy ground, slippery stones, inclined to disagree with the rain.
Chebulu offers camp site.  You meet pathfinders and adventurous on December holiday. Its tranquility favours these lots who have activities best carried out away from the populace. Rock climbing is the unforgettable experience.
Touring Chebulu comes with a price. The gateway, a wall of a rock running down, is unimaginable to climb, and you get incredibly thirsty for meandering, often stopping to take photographs of the breathe taking scenes. You must climb down the wall, which is the recommended trail, to fetch the mineral water. From the look of things, Chebulu is cared by few hands. Though it is under the Kenya Wildlife, Tabaita Youth Group takes care of it. It put up a stairway, a bout sixty mitres down the cliff, and tapped its water springs.
Competing for the scenery are the encroachers who does it with vengeance. The once extensive landscape is reducing in size. Farming, hunting, and charcoal burning comprises the major threat to the Chebulu.
Owing to its wealth of wood, which the surrounding does not supply, charcoal burners salivate for it. The hoard of the indigenous wood appeals to other people differently: it becomes a source of money as opposed to source of ecstasy (especially by walking in the wood).
Despite the vain efforts of the encroachers, the hunters and the charcoal burners who have endangered the meagre population and driven the wild game into the sugar plantation; the names inscribed on the rock records the number of visitors who have visited Chebulu in the last century. Chebulu has held its position as the attraction site, the serene vegetation that calls for attention, and the glory of Sigowet.