"Why are we camping here?” I whimper to my husband. Lake Magadi sits south of Nairobi. You drive past the city lights, over the Ngong Hills and from then its 87 kilometres of hot dusty road.

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Tourists enjoy the healing properties of the Magadi hot springs. I have never held ...

Trona has been mined at the lake since 1914, and the facility currently owned and operated by Tata Chemicals Magadi produces 350,000 tons of soda ash per year, according to Saltwork.