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Lake Magadi offers more than soda ash

Tourists enjoy the healing properties of the Magadi hot springs.

I have never held locomotives in high regard. My last trip on a train was a lunatic experience, literally. The engine broke down and I had to use alternative means to my destination.

Thus, it was with a pinch of salt that I boarded a train to what would be a salty destination, Magadi town, the filming location for Fernando Meirelles’s film The Constant Gardener. Although in the film the shots are supposed to be at Lake Turkana, they are actually at Lake Magadi.

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