Overview
MERU “The Complete Wilderness”
Meru Marvelous, remote, rugged and prominently unspoilt, Meru sits intact in a wilderness less visited, yet surrounded by undiluted natural beauty. It is wild and beautiful, straddling the equator and bisected by 13 rivers and numerous mountain-fed streams. The scenery is diverse from woodlands at 3,000ft on the slopes of Nyambene mountain range, northeast of Mt. Kenya to wide-open plains with meandering riverbanks dotted with doum palms.
The park teems with a variety of wildlife species including elephant, Grevy’s zebra, lion, cheetah, leopard, Meru hosts a rhino sanctuary that is home to the endangered black and white rhino species.
Bird life is also exceptionally diverse with over 400 bird species recorded.
Remote, rugged and prominently unspoilt, Meru National Park sits on an 870 sq kms area. The park is largely set in the wilderness yet strikingly beautiful. Few places and spaces compare to this great destination.
The park borders Bisanadi National Reserve to the north east and Kora National Park to the south east.
Meru Park prides itself for the history of the coming together of Joy Adamson’s best-selling book “Born Free”. The script is based on the Adamsons’ lives and research on lions and cheetahs. George and his spouse Joy Adamson are best known through the movie Born Free. The movie based on a true story of Elsa the lioness; an orphaned cub they had had rescued, raised and later released into the wild. This story line is a great puller of safari lovers to the par
