Wild and beautiful. Meru National Park was home to the famous Elsa the Lioness and George & Joy Adamson. The is highly underrated and slightly off the main tourist route. The park consists of a luxuriant jungle, coursing rivers, verdant swamp, grasslands and tall termite mounds and a 84 sqkm Rhino Sanctuary. The beautiful hilltops allow for a wonderful panoramic view of the plains below. Meru National park gives a sense of seclusion and the feeling that the only company you have is the wilderness. The park is where visitors can see the rare Grevy’s zebras, elephants, Bohor reedbuck, hartebeests, pythons, puff adders, cobras, buffalos and more. It is a birders paradise 427 recorded species of birds. Meru was one of the two areas in which conservationists George Adamson and Joy Adamson raised Elsa the Lioness, made famous in the best selling book and award winning movie Born Free. Elsa the Lioness is buried in this park and part of Joy’s ashes were scattered on her gravesite.