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The legacy and lodge that Hunter built

Sections of Hunter's Lodge, Kiboko

Hunters Lodge in Kiboko is unmissable on the Nairobi-Mombasa highway. The petrol station and tuck shop at the lodge’s entrance and vendors hawking tasty roast maize inspire many a pit stop.

Years of neglect saw the lodge gradually gain notoriety for being run down. All that remained of the promise of a glorious heyday was the grand signage. It might seem that those glorious days died with the lodge’s builder and proprietor John Alexander Hunter, universally known as J.A Hunter.

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