Meru National Park KENYA
Meru National Park KENYA
Meru National Park KENYA
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tereneh i
35 contributions
Feb 2022 • Solo
Meru National Park is a lush and stunningly beautiful park. Not as popular as better known parks this park is now my personal favorite. The landscape is so stunning even if you don’t see animals every 30 seconds you’ll be captivated by the scenery. The diversity of the landscape as well as being framed by the foothills of Mt Kenya is breathtaking.
But you’ll see animals, so very many and birds, so many varieties. While I didn’t see any big cats though lions and leopards make their home in Meru. I did see elephants, rhinos, giraffes, buffaloes animals, zebras, jackals, many kinds of gazelles and bucks. I think I mentioned all of the birds as well. It is just so wonderful.
I felt like I had the park to myself unlike some of the safari outdoor mall experiences you may have with crowded trucks in more popular parks. Meru is a gem that while not undiscovered it is definitely underrated. I suspect this will change very soon.
If you go to Kenya or if you live in Kenya Meru National Park is a must see.
But you’ll see animals, so very many and birds, so many varieties. While I didn’t see any big cats though lions and leopards make their home in Meru. I did see elephants, rhinos, giraffes, buffaloes animals, zebras, jackals, many kinds of gazelles and bucks. I think I mentioned all of the birds as well. It is just so wonderful.
I felt like I had the park to myself unlike some of the safari outdoor mall experiences you may have with crowded trucks in more popular parks. Meru is a gem that while not undiscovered it is definitely underrated. I suspect this will change very soon.
If you go to Kenya or if you live in Kenya Meru National Park is a must see.
Written 1 March 2022
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Jed G
6 contributions
July 2022 • Family
Meru is an awesome park for game viewing and landscapes. The doum palms and baobab trees look like a forest from Dr Seuss. You have the chance to see the Big Five and the Northern Five. We were short a leopard of achieving both on our safari. The park is also empty and we only saw one other vehicle over the three days we were there. So all of our sightings were private.
Written 18 August 2022
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Clare778
wilts14 contributions
Aug 2022
The work being done at this park is a real credit to them. Very visible and active rangers who appeared to enjoy what they have got here. We enjoyed a fabulous safari in Meru NP, seeing a wide range of game and absolutely loved the Rhino area, watching many rhino, elephant and Buffalo in one sighting. We also finally caught up with a Serval here after 30 years of waiting !
Written 31 August 2022
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Michael K
Melbourne, Australia3 contributions
Sept 2022
I'm afraid I'm going to give quite a different review from most of the ones I have seen here.
As of Sept 2022 when I was there, Meru had had a 2 yr drought and game was very sparse.
What game was there was very skittish. In 2 full days there we had a glimpse of 2 lions before they fled into the bush. We saw no other cats.
Even a big herd of buffalo (normally pretty relaxed with tourist vehicles) began moving off as soon as we arrived. Before long, they had gone.
We had one good sighting of a rhino and quite a lot of birds. Otherwise it wasn't great.
As of Sept 2022 when I was there, Meru had had a 2 yr drought and game was very sparse.
What game was there was very skittish. In 2 full days there we had a glimpse of 2 lions before they fled into the bush. We saw no other cats.
Even a big herd of buffalo (normally pretty relaxed with tourist vehicles) began moving off as soon as we arrived. Before long, they had gone.
We had one good sighting of a rhino and quite a lot of birds. Otherwise it wasn't great.
Written 23 November 2022
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GreyWolf64
Rockford, IL81 contributions
July 2022
Just an amazing Kenyan National Park. The park where Born Free took place. It was badly poached in the l980s, but the Kenyan Wildlife Service took it back after the death of George Adamson. Today the wildlife is once again plentiful throughout the park. It is an incredible experience to see lions, hippos, elephants and giraffes without other tourists. We went a two full days without seeing another tourist vehicle. Moreover, we were the only people who stayed in the park for two of our three nights. Warning though - if you stay in the campground please be sure to rent a Boma. Black mambas frequent the campground toilet because of the water catches alongside the wall. Africa's deadliest snake, the black mamba's bite is considered the kiss of death. We were walking to the the bathroom and thought the mamba was a black hose until it rose up waist high about four feet in front of us. My wife and I followed Tony Fitzjohn's advice in his book Born Wild, and slowly backed up about six feet, and then turned and ran like hell back to the campsite. Normally mambas won't allow anyone to get within 100 feet of them without striking. We were incredibly lucky. Definitely go to Meru, but be sure to rent a Boma so you have a toilet and shower indoors. Don't want to walk around this campsite at night with the mambas about.
Written 29 July 2022
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Ying S
5 contributions
Dec 2022
Meru took some getting to, especially if you drive. But it's totally worth it. It is a tropical paradise of a place with all the animals you'd expect to see, and some fantastic plant species, like a 1000-year old Baobab tree. Go!
Written 30 December 2022
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Susan P
Alfreton, UK344 contributions
Sept 2020
The Park is good. there was quite a bit of wildlife. We had to drive through the Rhino Sanctuary to get into the park. We didn't get to see Adamson's falls or the Adamson's graves. The main highlights of this park was seeing White Rhino with young and Hippos with young..
Written 30 September 2020
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Bidule05
France1,952 contributions
July 2021
We stayed 3 nights in Meru national park in July 2021. The landscape in the park is beautiful and varied, consisting in bushy savannah, savannah, swamps. That’s were both Joy and George Adamson lived with their famous Lioness called Elsa (from the book Born free).
In Meru national park, we made great safaris, allowing us to see:
- predators, including: 1) lions, spotted hyenas, black-backed jackals
- elephants with playful babies, black and white rhinos (in the Rhino sanctuary area), herds of endangered Grevy zebras, many groups of beautiful reticulated giraffes, wonderful gazelles giraffes (gerenuks), buffalos, Grant gazelles, Cape elands, waterbucks, warthogs…
- and a lot of many birds.
In the Southern area of Meru National Park, on the banks of the Tana River, we gathered at the tomb erected in honor of Joy Adamson's famous lioness Elsa. Joy Adamson recounted how she raised Elsa, the young orphan lioness, in her famous book "Born free". We were moved to learn that Elsa had died at the age of 5 years old from a parasitic infection due to Babesi.
Taken together, I highly recommend to visit Meru national park with its awesome landscapes and few jeeps in the surroundings (disturbing animals).
In Meru national park, we made great safaris, allowing us to see:
- predators, including: 1) lions, spotted hyenas, black-backed jackals
- elephants with playful babies, black and white rhinos (in the Rhino sanctuary area), herds of endangered Grevy zebras, many groups of beautiful reticulated giraffes, wonderful gazelles giraffes (gerenuks), buffalos, Grant gazelles, Cape elands, waterbucks, warthogs…
- and a lot of many birds.
In the Southern area of Meru National Park, on the banks of the Tana River, we gathered at the tomb erected in honor of Joy Adamson's famous lioness Elsa. Joy Adamson recounted how she raised Elsa, the young orphan lioness, in her famous book "Born free". We were moved to learn that Elsa had died at the age of 5 years old from a parasitic infection due to Babesi.
Taken together, I highly recommend to visit Meru national park with its awesome landscapes and few jeeps in the surroundings (disturbing animals).
Written 5 August 2021
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Am B
11 contributions
Sept 2023 • Couples
Such an underrated park. Very few visitors. Wild. Lots of magnificence birds. For those loving Real wilderness, just go there
Written 13 October 2023
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Thomas G
Amsterdam, The Netherlands1,870 contributions
Aug 2021
Meru national park is not one of the most famous parks in Kenya, but that is not deserved. The birding is excellent. We saw different species of raptors like the Martial eagle. There is a abundance of secretary birds in the park. The game viewing is really good. We saw rhinos, although in a separate area, where only rhinos cannot go through but other animals can. This area is also protected heavily by rangers to prevend from poaching. The area is still really big, so you still have to look carefully for rhinos. There also is a healthy population of elephants, reticulated giraffes, jackals, many antelopes (especially waterbuck and dikdik), buffaloes and zebras. We found a pair of honey badgers for the first time of my life! Some really cool things to see are the Tana river with Adamson's falls and a smaller river, with a hippo pool with a lot of hippos really close. Besides, there are crocodiles in the water as well. In two days we saw one lioness, but the rest was really good. But maybe the highlight of the park was the fact that you are alone the whole time! We just saw one other vehicle during those days, so within every sighting we were alone or with 2 vehicles ad that was so cool! I strongly recommend to go here with a lot of animal species and sightings all for yourself.
Written 6 September 2021
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