Meru National Park
$ On Request
Highlights
- Witness The Best Part Of Safari.
- Enjoy The Nature And Beauty Of Africa.
- Great for First Time Adventurers.
The park is a Kenyan game park located east of Meru, 350km from Nairobi. It covers an area of 870km and it’s the best known national park in Kenya. It has lots of rainfall in the west of the park and in the east. The rainfall results in tall grass and the lush swamps. The park has wide range of wild animals including the elephants, African lions, African leopard, Kenyan cheetah, and the eastern black Rhinoceros, southern white Rhinoceros, The Grevy’s zebra, Hippos. Meru was one of the two areas in which the conservationists George Adamson and Joy Adamson raised Elsa the lioness that is buried in the park and part of Joy’s ashes were scattered on her gravesite.
History of the park
In the years of 2000 and 2005, the Kenya Wildlife services helped by the international Fund for animal welfare restored Meru national park from near ruin to one of the most promising the tourist destinations in Eastern Africa, solving the parks poaching problem. The IFAW donated $1.25 million to this major restoration project, and with this money aided in improving the basic infrastructure and provided essential equipment and vehicles for law enforcement activities.
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