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Elsa's Kopje

Meru National Park, Kenya

Silver price level

Mango Opinion

We love Elsa’s, but we find it hard to fit it in to many trips these days, as there are so many amazing options. Everyone who stays here falls in love with the feeling and atmosphere of the camp. An amazing first or last stop on the trip. This is the kind of place you don't mind hanging back on a game drive to sip away cocktails in their infinity pool. 

Romantic and beautifully styled, Elsa’s Kopje is sculpted into Mughwango Hill, above the site of George Adamson’s original camp where he raised and released orphan lions, long before conservation became fashionable.

Eight Makuti (thatched) stone cottages blend into the hillside. Each cottage is crafted around the rocks, with a large bedroom, open sitting room, veranda and spacious bathroom, each with breathtaking views.

The rugged and remote Meru National Park was rescued from oblivion thanks to Elsa’s Kopje, an environmental award-winning, boutique lodge. Guests can enjoy inimitable seclusion in the vast expanse of Elsa’s Kopje, boasting the equivalent of 215,000 acres of authentic African landscape.

The park offers a thriving rhino sanctuary, and is famous for large elephant herds, hippo, lion, and birdlife; Meru National Park is recognized as having more diversity of animal species than any other park in East Africa. Activities include game drives in open-sided Land Rovers, guided walks, village visit sand bush meals.

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