Read All About It: The Story of Elsa

Nomad, the East African magazine for intrepid travelers, recently ran a photo story on Elsa’s Kopje lodge at Meru national Park and its namesake Elsa the Lioness of book and movie fame.

Quotable quote: “Before the opening of Elsa’s Kopje and subsequent income from visitors, there was talk in the government of degazetting the park and turning the well-watered fertile land into rice plantations, because a huge part of the wildlife was wiped out by poachers and some wildlife had migrated to safer parks.”

Catch the rest of the story by Brian Siambi here: