Nyahururu Falls is a 74 metres (243 ft) waterfall on the Ewaso Ng’iiro river in Central Rift Valley Kenya a few kilometres from Lake Ol Bolossat, which drains from the Aberdare Range
It is situated 3 kilometres (2 mi) from Nyahururu town at 2,360 metres (7,740 ft) elevation. Joseph Thompson was the first European to reach Thomson Falls, and named them for his father.
Thomson was a scottish geologist and naturalist who became the first European to walk from Mombasa to Lake Victoria in the early 1880s