#Elewana Collection News Updates

This year TED Global 2017, was hosted in Arusha Tanzania, where Shanga was invited to showcase and sell their products in the Artisan market. Their team worked incredibly hard to put together a stunning display, and had the opportunity to teach guests sign language as well as how to bead and weave!

Shanga is a heartwarming enterprise dedicated to supporting and empowering people with disabilities to live independent lives and where products they have produced are sold at Elewana Arusha Coffee Lodge.

We’re thrilled to announce that our stunning beach property on the pristine shores of Diani Beach in Kenya- Elewana AfroChic Diani Beach– has been nominated, in three categories, for the World Luxury Hotel Awards!

We’re up for the Luxury Beach Villa, Luxury Boutique Hotel, and Luxury Honeymoon Hotel awards! Please spare a minute to vote for us in any one of the categories above.

Voting ends on September 30th!
Thank you!

The second pool at Loisaba Tented Camp, is located close to our last three tents, providing added privacy and intimacy during your stay.
Equipped with its own entrance, parking bay and dining area, it is the perfect escape for family and friends, or those travelling in groups. The views are fantastic and the breeze magical!

We’re thrilled to announce that Loisaba Tented Camp has been nominated and shortlisted in the Lodge and Tented Category for the AHEAD awards.

A judging panel will announce the winners in November at an exclusive event in Dubai. Hosted by Sleeper Magazine, the world’s leading publication for hotel design, AHEAD comprises four annual, regional awards schemes run over a two year period, culminating in a global biennale.

Throughout 2017 and 2018 awards ceremonies will celebrate the most outstanding new hospitality projects in various regions. The awards are entered, judged and attended by leading hotel owners, developers, operators, architects and designers from around the world.

In a bid to protect the worlds environments, wildlife, oceans, and sealife, on August 28th 2017, the world’s toughest plastic bag ban was introduced in Kenya.

We encourage all our guests to please respect these new laws and travel with alternatives when arriving into Kenya. Any duty-free plastic bags picked up along the journey will need to be discarded at the airport upon arrival in Kenya. For those guests travelling on Kenya Airways, passengers will be provided with alternative bags for items purchased in duty-free.

SkySafari is launching a new photography safari hosted by award winning wildlife photographer and cameraman Luke Massey. The seven-night photography SkySafari will take place from the 9th to the 16th December 2017 and will follow the SkySafari Connoisseur itinerary.

Luke will accompany the group throughout, offering expert advice on photography to ensure that guests not only expand their skills but return with an impressive portfolio of images that will be treasured for many years.

Participants will receive tutorial on understanding light, framing, what makes a good photograph and understanding a subject; all in a relaxed atmosphere. The course is open to everyone from novices that haven’t picked up a camera before to those looking to take their photography to the next level.

To celebrate the launch of this photography safari, we have partnered with The Telegraph who are looking for great travel photographers, for their 2018 Telegraph Travel Calendar.

Submit your favourite image on Instagram using the hashtag TTcalendarcomp and you could win a Nikon D7500 and a chance to win a once in a life time trip with SkySafari to Kenya or Tanzania!

For more information, click here

We’re extremely proud to announce that a second member of our Elewana family will be visiting Capetown very soon!

Congratulations to Moses Mureithi from Elewana Elsa’s Kopje for being the top seller of premium wines.

The winning prize is a trip to Cape Town sponsored by our wine suppliers – Under The Influence!

With September bringing children back to school in many countries, here in Kenya the Wildlife Warriors are sitting down for their scholarship examinations. Over the next week or two, members of our Wildlife Warrior Clubs will be taking the examination, hoping to demonstrate how much conservation knowledge they have gained from club activities.

The top students in each school will be awarded a 75% scholarship for the four year duration of their secondary education. We wish all the children luck! For more information about the Wildlife Warrior Program click here.

We would love to expand our program and bring more scholars into the program in 2018. If you would like to help us reach more of these bright young conservationists, you can sponsor a child today! Simply contact us for more information, or donate through our website here.

"I was born and raised in Kenya, with much of my childhood running along the sandy white beaches of Kilifi. When we moved back to Nairobi I went to school at the Banda then Hillcrest before leaving to complete my A Levels and University in the United Kingdom, where I graduated with a BA Hons (2:1) in Hospitality Management.

I have over 15 years’ experience, a career that started in the Travel Industry with A&K and then moved into Advertising, Branding and Marketing, working on some of the biggest brands, such as Coca-Cola, Nestle, Barclays and more recently Safaricom. Another aspect of my life includes conservation and the preservation of wildlife, not only in Kenya but globally. I am looking forward to a new chapter combining my knowledge and experience over the years to grow the Elewana Collection as a brand and market the best of Kenya and Tanzania to all those who love beautiful places."

We want to extend a very warm welcome to our new Marketing Manager Alia Bellamy…

~ The Elewana Team