The Giant Footprint Laaria
‘Foot-prints of Jesus’ are remains of a series of unique sets of ‘foot-prints’ found on a rock. These footprint traces are found at Laaria in Lolera location of Tigania West in Meru County about 8km from Ruiri market through the new tarmacked Ruiri-Isiolo road.
The place is very famous because it trickles with salty water known as mwonyo in Meru language and from the time when the Meru community settled here they have been taking their livestock there to drink the salty water.
The community members claim these to be the footprints of Jesus which they refer to as “makinya ja Njesu” in Meru language.
Geographically, the footsteps seem to be of the earliest men who stepped on the molten rocks during the formation of Nyambene ranges through volcanicity.
The Footprints on the Rock
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