3-Days 2-Nights Private Tour to Meru National Park

This is your day to fully immerse yourself in nature. After an early breakfast, you’ll depart with a packed lunch for a full-day tour. Meru National Park is renowned for its lions and holds a special connection to Elsa the Lioness, made famous by the 1966 British drama film “Born Free,” starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, who raised Elsa from an orphaned cub to adulthood.

You can visit Elsa’s grave, located at the southern end of the park near the southern bank of the Ura River. Meru National Park is also one of the top locations in Kenya to observe rhinos in their natural habitat, with the fenced 83 sq km Rhino Sanctuary housing 34 black rhinos and 70 white rhinos. Enjoy your packed lunch in the park, continue with game drives, and later return to your camp for dinner and an overnight stay.

This is your last day of he safari. Enjoy breakfast as you check out of your camp. We’ll then depart for Nairobi, with a stop along the way for lunch and refreshments. You’ll arrive in the late evening, where we’ll drop you off at your hotel.

After breakfast from your hotel/ camp, you will embark for a full day game drive with picnic lunch boxes. Morning game drives which usually a great time to spot predators – especially lions, cheetah and leopards, each of which prefers to hunt in the cool of dawn and dusk. Before you know it, sleepiness gives way to alert excitement as the day begins to unfold. If the weather permits, you will be able to witness the majestic Mount Kilimanjaro. Mount Kilimanjaro is Africa’s highest peak. You will get to all the big five the park returning back in the evening for dinner and overnight at hotel\camp.

After breakfast, you will check out at the hotel and proceed for a Morning game drives which usually a great time to spot predators – especially lions, cheetah and leopards, each of which prefers to hunt in the cool of dawn and dusk. Before you know it, sleepiness gives way to alert excitement as the day begins to unfold. If the weather permits, you will be able to witness the majestic Mount Kilimanjaro. Mount Kilimanjaro is Africa’s highest peak. You cannot make your journey complete without visiting the local community around the park, which is optional at an extra cost of 20 USD per person for a cultural experience as you interact with the Masai people and get to know their traditional and nomadic way of life, see local arts and crafts among other activities. A Masai guide will take you through their homes to learn the areas of interest like their way of circumsion, visiting their mothers house, meeting their medicine men, making fire by rubbing two sticks together and finally visiting the Masai market where you will be offered a chance to shop their items. You will later drive to Nairobi arriving later afternoon. Thereafter your guide will drive you off to Nairobi at your area of preference.