Meru National Park

Meru National Park contains a variety of landscapes and wildlife unmatched in any other Kenyan park of its size. Bordering the arid, open plains that dominate the park are a huge diversity of different ecosystems, ranging from emerald green swamps and towering indigenous forest in the west to huge palm groves and baobab-studded bush in the east.

This rich slice of equatorial Africa is home to an equally broad variety of wildlife, from large elephant and buffalo herds to hippo and crocodile, leopard, cheetah and wild dog, and the lions that remain the park’s most enduring symbol.

Meru is best known as the inspiration of the film Born Free – the place where George and Joy Adamson released their famously friendly charges into the bush. The park’s 870 square kilometers are watered by five major rivers and surrounded by large protected buffer zones that provide a dispersal area for its animals, which include the world’s largest herds of Cape buffalo.

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