Sarova Shaba Game Lodge is located within Shaba Game Reserve which is east of Samburu National Reserve. The lodge is located along the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro River and is spread out along the natural springs that feed the river. Within the lodge rises a mini-forest further immersing its guests into the northern Kenya wilderness. This region was home to Joy and George Adamson. Joy was a naturalist who raised a lion cub named Elsa and wrote a book about it, Born Free. The phrase the born-free country is, therefore, sometimes used to describe this part of the country.