Story behind the enduring legacy of Tsavo

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Travel editors at the New York Times have listed Tsavo, Kenya's largest conservation as one the places to visit in this year's list of 52 Places to Go in 2024. Tsavo gained international acclaim as a result of two female lions, the world's most maligned and vilified felines that had a fetish for human flesh.

The Indians who had become easy prey for the two lions in 1898 were among thousands constructing what was then known as the Uganda Railway, itself a controversial project that had British lawmakers on tenterhooks. British legislators had earlier poured scorn and derided the project as one having no tangible benefits to the British.