The eco-lodge offering a taste of Borana culture

Hussein Gonjobe, vice chairperson and co-founder of Malka Bisanadi Cultural Centre in Guba Dida Village, Kinna, Isiolo County, opens one of the traditional manyattas at the facility on July 23, 2026. 

Photo credit: Sammy Waweru | Nation Media Group

On the edge of Meru National Park, where the savannah meets the Borana grazing lands, a group of huts has become an unlikely setting for one of the most compelling cultural stories in northern Kenya.

The Malka Bisanadi Cultural Centre is not a resort in the conventional sense. It is a living village where visitors trade polished hotel corridors for grass-thatched huts and the hum of pastoral life.

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