Meru National Park

Meru National Park covers 870 square kilometres in central Kenya, straddling the equator on the northern slopes of Mount Kenya. It gained international fame as the setting for Joy Adamson’s Born Free and has since recovered to become one of Kenya’s most biodiverse parks, with all of the Big Five present alongside rare species including the Tana River red colobus monkey and reintroduced white rhinos.
Meru receives a fraction of the visitors of the Maasai Mara, offering a genuinely off-the-beaten-track experience. Its network of rivers, open plains, and dense forest make it one of Kenya’s most scenic and rewarding parks for wildlife photography.