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Description
Made famous by the film "Born Free" and George Adamson's lions, the lodge is invisible to the eye as you approach the kopje. Each of the 9 individually built cottages are luxuriously appointed, and here you'll find the ultimate "room with a view".
The atmosphere induces a feeling of peace thanks to a highly trained, unobtrusive team of staff and a skilled host who manages the lodge. Each cottage is attended by a butler who also waits on the guests at mealtimes. The food is traditional Northern Italian cuisine blended with a selection of local and international dishes, fresh baked bread, crisp salads and locally grown vegetables.
Activities include game drives in open-sided safari Land Rovers, driven by knowledgeable driver-guides, all members of the Kenya Professional Safari Guides Association. Guided walks are led by a Professional Safari Guide and accompanied by a Ranger.
Other attractions include bush breakfasts and sundowners and visits to the Tharaka tribal village on the Southern Boundary of the Park.
Soft drinks, beer and house wines are included in the room rate. Laundry service is included.
Champagne, special select wines and luxury spirits are additional.
Accommodations
The 9 stone and thatch guest cottages are crafted around the natural features of the hill. Paved paths, lit by lamps at night, lead from each cottage to the comfortable open bar, lounge and dining room. There is a sense of space, style and pure relaxation. The ultimate ‘pool with a view’ looks out across the plains, perfect for chilling out after a game drive or guided walk in the bush.
Every cottage is uniquely designed. The generous double or twin beds are romantically swathed in netting. The bathrooms are sumptuous: showers or baths made out of stone, modern flush toilets, bidets and double basins.
One double cottage is set slightly apart from the others, ideal for families with children or a group. It has a double bedroom and a twin bedroom (bathrooms en-suite).
Elsa’s Private House was completed in June 2005. Built by the original designer of Elsa’s Kopje. Elsa’s Private House is set apart from the rest of the lodge, providing complete exclusivity and privacy. The house consists of one double bedroom with en-suite bathroom with a large bath-tub. There is a spacious twin room, with en-suite bathroom. The living area spills into your very own private swimming pool. The pool falls neatly into the horizon beyond the Meru plains. Elsa’s Private House provides guests with their very own piece of Kopje paradise. One of Kenya’s best pools with a view!
Activities
- Swimming pool
- Guided bush walks
- Game drives in 4-wheel drive vehicles
- Night game drives
- Bush breakfasts
- Day excursions to the Tana River with packed lunches
- Bush sundowners
- Line fishing (Catfish and Barbel)
- Massages
Awards
"If you've got a digital camera--bring a lot of memory. If you're using film--bring lots and lots of rolls with you. Because even if you couldn't see giraffe, Cape buffalo, elephants, waterbuck, hyrax, and blue and orange geckos (from the pool...from your private deck...from your outdoor bathtub carved into the hillside...as well as from the Land Rover), you'll find the scenery absolutely out of this world. Check my photo album, and you'll see what I mean!" Michael, TheBigDay co-founder
Local Area
Elsa’s Kopje was named after Elsa the lioness who was made famous by George and Joy Adamson in the film “Born Free”. Situated on a kopje, meaning small hill, the lodge camouflages itself into the hillside of Mughwango Hill, George Adamson’s original camp. Every cottage is uniquely designed and crafted from the natural features of the hill. Each cottage has spacious double or twin beds with en-suite bathrooms. There is an open bar, lounge and dining room. Elsa’s Private House is set slightly apart from the main lodge. It has 1 double room and 1 twin both with en-suite bathrooms. There is a living and dining area, which falls neatly into its own private swimming pool. The main lodge also has its own pool with a view of the Meru plains.
Elsa’s Kopje is a luxurious oasis in the wilds of Meru National Park. Meru is vast with arid, open plains dotted with Doum Palms and Baobab trees and lush vegetation along 13 rivers, like green ribbons, bisecting the Park.
Here visitors will see a more diverse range of species than in any other Park or Reserve. Regular sightings include Beisa Oryx, Gerenuk, Elephant, Grevy’s Zebra, Reticulated Giraffe, Lesser Kudu, Grant’s Gazelle, Leopard, Lion, Cheetah, Rhino and the rare, elusive Greater Kudu. Meru is famous for its bird life, including riverine and forest species as well as the arid dry country species.
Pricing and Special Offers
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9 nights from $5,050 per person
Included:
- Spend 9 nights/10 days on safari in Kenya including three nights at Elsa's Kopje for $5050.00 per person
- Day 1, 2 & 3 at Elsa's Kopje, Meru National Park, Kenya
- Day 4, 5 & 6 at Loisaba Lodge, Laikipia, Kenya
- Day 7, 8 & 9 at Saruni Camp, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
- Day 10 at House of Waine (day use room), Nairobi, Kenya
Restrictions: Package subject to availability from our suppliers. While we strive to maintain the most up-to-date pricing possible, pricing from our suppliers may change at any time, thus our prices may change without notice. Note that prices are NOT guaranteed until travel is paid for in full. Please also note that there are price differences between high and low season for most resorts and cruises.
Offer valid for travel between
October 1, 2008 and December 23, 2008
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Please note: we can create a vacation for you with virtually any number of nights, with or without airfare, and any room category.
What's shown above is just a sample of pricing and packaging available from some of our suppliers.
Prices often vary between high and low season, and for different categories of accommodations.
Reviews
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One of the most amazing and romantic spots on earth
Michael
Co-founder of TheBigDay
About me: Co-founded TheBigDay in 2001. Has travelled to Tahiti, Thailand, Seychelles, Kenya, Jamaica, Turks & Caicos, Hawaii, Mexico, Belize, and the Arctic in winter!.
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Melinda and I visited Elsa's Kopje on our honeymoon. We flew in from Nairobi airport in a tiny Cessna the pilot offered to let me "have a go" when I told him I'd been messing around with Microsoft Flight Simulator and landed on the dirt airstrip near the lodge. Luckily the half-dozen Grant's gazelles on the airstrip got out of the way....but at the other end, a bull elephant came charging out of the underbrush at us, so the pilot quickly taxied us back the other way.
The lodge consists of just a handful of villas built into the hillside of a small outcropping in the middle of Meru National Park. It's where Born Free was filmed remember Elsa the Lioness?. The honeymoon suite has a bathtub set out in the open, tucked into the hill below the suite see my pics. Amazing service from really wonderful people at the resort. You get your own guide and car for your game drives--no sharing with a bunch of other tourists--and the guides are incredibly knowledgeable thanks Joel!. There's an incredible pool built into the hillside, and dinners are in a common area where you can mingle with the handful of other guests and see who saw what that day. Great food, and a cold Tusker beer has never tasted so great!
One of our customers had stayed as Elsa's a few months before we went, and he told me that he'd never seen such a romantic spot anywhere....I'd have to agree!
See my photos of Elsa's Kopje, Kenya.
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Experienced: October 2005
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Posted: 12/6/2007 3:25PM
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Rating: A
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