Meru National Park

Location: Meru County, Kenya

Area: 870 km²

Overview

The Meru and Kora sister parks feature luxuriant jungles, coursing rivers, verdant swamp, khaki grasslands, and gaunt termite cathedrals all under the sky’s great blue bowl. Not well known and utterly unspoiled with few places comparable to the remote and ruffed atmosphere found here.

Known as “Complete Wilderness” where you can see Grevy’s zebras, elephants, Bohor reedbucks,   Elands, hartebeests, pythons, puff adders, cobras, buffalos, Bush Pig, Waterbuck, Cheetah, leopard, Reticulated Giraffe, Hippopotamus, Bohor Reedbuck, Hartebeest, Python, Puff Udder, Cobra, Buffalo, more than 427 recorded species of Birds.

The park is mainly thorny bushland in the North, wooded grasslands in the West, elsewhere open grassland, and dense riverine forests of Doum and Raffia palm. Accessible from Nairobi (384kms) via Nyeri-Nanyuki-Meru or use Embu all-weather roads.

Park is accessible by road through Maua to Murera Gate (35km) whilst through Embu to Ura Gate (120km, 290km from Nairobi and by air to the main airstrip at Kinna Airstrip, Mulika Lodge Airstrip, and Elsa’s Kopje Airstrip.

The Uniqueness of this Park

• • Close-up views of animals.

• • Highest destiny of 76 indigenous black rhinos and 13 white rhinos.

• • Nairobi National Park is the oldest park in Kenya, established in 1946.

• • Nairobi National Park is the only national park that exists within a capital city.

Accommodation Options

• • Elsa’s Kopje – 6 doubles + 1 twin, Family Cottage, 2 Honeymoon Suites, Private House.

• • Rhino River Camp – 7 tents.

Activities at the Destination

Visit the grave of Elsa the Lion, Visit the Black and White Rhino in the Rhino Sanctuary, History of the home of Joy & George Adamson and Elsa the lioness, Views of Mount Kenya, Rivers, and riverine habitats.

Adamson Falls, Game Viewing Drives by bronze or Silver-rated drivers, Excursions to the Tana River, Rhino Sanctuary, Guided Walks, River Fishing, Bush Breakfast, Sundowners, Massage, and Cultural Visits.