Breathtaking. There is no other way to describe this unique rock formation, rising 120 metres into the sky, 30km west of Kisumu. Kit Mikayi in dholuo means stone of the first wife and the name is derived from the legend of Ngeso. The story goes that Ngeso was a local man with a deep affection for the stone, he would leave his home and spend hours in its cave. His wife was forced to bring him his meals there. And when she would walk around the village, if anyone asked about her husband’s whereabouts, she would nonchalantly reply that he was with his first wife-the stone. Legend has it during a severe drought the elders went to the seers to ask what they needed to do to bring rain and they were told to go and offer sacrifice at Kit Mikayi and from that moment the community has treated the rock as a prayer site. Elders offer a white goat and four chicken, which are slaughtered, roasted and first offered to the ancestors through a crevice in the rock. The community then prays together and shares the rest of the meat. For the prayers to be successful, they had to be led by a local and offered facing