When you are drinking coffee, you can see the baboons on the other side of the river. When you pick up a croissant, a Buddhist monk (a bird unique to Africa) with bright purple breasts flies overhead. In the early morning in Kenya, please pick up champagne to celebrate the newly rising sun on the grassland.
Get up before sunrise every day, drive an open-top Land Rover to the grassland, wait for the sun to show up, and wait for the animals on the grassland to wake up and meet. Finally, find an open grassland with beautiful scenery, or a boulder where lions and leopards have stayed, then take out the prepared folding seats from the car, spread bright tablecloths, put your own cakes, bread, eggs and fruits, pour coffee and black tea, and spread out an open grassland breakfast under the blue sky and white clouds.
In p>196, Joey Addison published an autobiography, Born Free, which recorded the story that she and her husband George Addison raised Elsa the lioness and released her into the forest, causing a sensation. In 1966, this story was made into a movie. Elsa Copyer's breakfast trip to the grassland was to find the place where George first camped here and the tombstone in memory of Elsa the lioness.
at six o'clock in the morning, wake-up coffee and hand-baked cookies are delivered on time. Roll up the gauze curtain and bathe in the morning light. Merupin is just under the cliff room of Elsas Kopje Hotel. In fact, the whole Elsas Kopje woke up at 5: 3 at sunrise. The African woodpecker in the camp, the monkey living on the hillside and the rabbit without tail all live in the old tree outside the room, waiting for a good sunshine.
This hotel, built on Mughwango Mountain, is named after Elsa, the lioness who was born free. There are only ten huts, all of which are designed along the rock curve on the cliff, and won the Best African Hunting Property Award and the Best Hunting Guide.
At 6: 3, our guide Philip took us hiking. A locust tree not far from the hotel is where George first camped. This Englishman, born in India, has been advocating the protection of wild animals all his life. His wife Joey not only ate, slept and played with Elsa here, but also raised three children for Elsa after she was released to the grassland. Decades later, George's camping equipment is still buried here, and the surrounding weeds and wild flowers grow season after season. Philip said that at the end of the story, the wild and beautiful lioness Elsa died in George's arms.
It takes an hour to drive to Elsa's memorial tombstone. Off-road vehicles drive past one river after another, and flocks of small yellow butterflies are constantly flying by the river. These small rivers flowing on the Meruping Plain have become the source of water for all living things. Therefore, the ten huts in Elsas Kopje are all named after rivers. It is rainy in Lumeiping this season. It is completely different from the pink flower sea in Masai Mara National Park, which brings surprises other than watching animals. This flower is called Digera muricata, and its single branch is delicate and inconspicuous. But after opening an acre of flower fields, the fluffy pink in the morning light makes the grassland as bright as spring.
cross this sea of flowers and come to Elsa's memorial tombstone. The tombstone is located at the junction of two protected areas and hidden in the forest. Thick and old trees and romantic wild flowers can't erase some melancholy brought by the stream near the tombstone. In particular, the inscription is engraved with a poem written by George for Elsa: Wind, you are a child in the sky, and the mountain deeply touched the boulder. Ah, wind, you are a child in the sky, and the secret is your way. When the Eden couple released Elsa back to the grassland, they didn't expect it to come back to visit them and entrust their children to raise it. Trust between humans and animals is a love legend in Kenya.
After searching for Elsa's tombstone, Philip set the breakfast in this forest: an old English picnic box with silver tableware and meals neatly placed inside. Hot coffee, milk and tea, still frozen butter, sausage and bacon fried by the chef in the morning, hand-baked bread and cake, boiled eggs, yogurt and bananas are all spread on bright plaid cloth.
Before the dew on the grass was wet, baboons danced among the branches on the other side of the river, and purple-breasted Buddhist monks passed gracefully. Drinking coffee in the jungle as if nothing had happened.