- Elsamere, Lake Naivasha, Kenya
(We literally stumbled onto this historical treasure - Elsamere, the home of Joy Adamson, the author of 'Born Free' about that famous lioness, Elsa. We didn't know that our home for 2 nights was going to be this famous cottage, which has been kept the way it was since 1980, when she died. All her drawings and paintings were still hung here, with the furniture and fireplace kept as it was then. Wild animals roam free here because it is right beside Lake Naivasha, including hippos. We were kept on our toes both nights, with guards accompanying us to our cottage unit for safety reasons - concerns heightened by the death of a China tourist caused by a charging hippo just 2 nights before, on another location near this lake. We had a bellyache full of laughter, acting silly each night as we hear the hippo stories from Sam, the CEO of this fascinating cottage)
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