The Anti-Gravity Hill (Kituluni Hill)

One of the strangest natural phenomena along the Kenyan Rift Valley is the point that the native Kamba mysteriously call "anti-gravity." Young men gesticulate on the street to demonstrate the "miracle" to visitors for a small fee. They put a plastic bottle filled with water on the asphalt, which apparently rolls uphill. If you ask them if they gave the bottle a nudge, they empty the contents onto the street. The water flows slowly uphill – apparently. Those blindly taking a few steps would swear they are going downhill. But the way undoubtedly goes up.

Getting there

After a hairpin turn on the road 12 km outside of Machakos town on the ascent to the Kituluni Hills, about 60 km southeast of Nairobi.