Offbeat Meru Camp is a small twelve bed traditional semi permanent luxury camp located just outside Meru National Park in Bisanadi National Reserve.
The camp prides itself on providing guests with an exclusive experience in a remote wildlife area. Offbeat Meru Camp is small and exclusive, meaning that service is highly personal. The camp has six luxury tents, all with en suite shower rooms, flushing loos, huge beds and internal lighting.
Set above Bisanadi River, Offbeat Meru Camp comprises of 6 large tents of 3 are twins and 3 are doubles. Each tent is furnished with a large iron bed, en suite bucket shower, wash basin and flush toilet.
There is a large sitting room equipped with library, comfortable sofas, writing table and bar. Hearty English breakfasts with home baked break, light lunches and sumptuous four course dinners are all prepared with fresh local produce.
Dining is informal and served in the mess tent or around the campfire. The camp also boasts a lovely swimming pool.
Activities at Offbeat Meru Camp include day and night game drives, bush walks, visits to the local Boran Communities, bush breakfasts and sundowners. Alternatively guests can relax around the pool watching the game drink from the river below them
Meru National Park is probably less famous than some of Kenya’s other national parks. But with a wide variety of landscapes including savannah, swamps and riverine forests, it provides excellent game viewing opportunities.
Leopard, cheetah, lion, elephant, black and white rhino are some of the game you will spot while exploring the park. Meru National Park is also home to giraffe, zebra, hartebeest, dik dik, impala and hyena to name a few.
The area is also excellent for bird watching. Kingfisher, starling, Pelas fishing owl and bee-eaters are some of the birds you will find while exploring Meru National Park.
Meru National Park can be visited throughout the year. A visit/Safari to Meru National Park is best combined with the nearby attractions which include Mount Kenya National Park, Lewa Dawns, Samburu, Buffalo Springs, Shaba Reserve and Sweet Waters game sanctuary.
Just email us and let us organize a wonderful safari to these places including Masai, Serengeti, Manyara, Ngorongoro and Lake Nakuru Combinations.
Elsa’s Kopje
This is no doubt a luxurious oasis in the wilds of Meru National Park, Elsa’s Kopje, named after Elsa the lioness raised by conservation icons George and Joy Adamson and made famous in the film ‘Born Free’ She was released into the wild here at the Meru National Park.
The word Kopje means ‘small hill’. Elsa’s Kopje lodge blends into the hillside of Mughwango Hill, site of George Adamson’s original camp. Meru is vast with arid, open plains dotted with Doum Palms and Baobab trees and lush vegetation along 13 rivers, like green ribbons, bisecting the Park. The lodge is invisible to the eye as you approach the kopje.
This lodge offers 10 luxurious cottages. The cottages are the ultimate rooms with a view, uniquely designed and crafted, incorporating the natural features of the rocky hillside. Each cottage has spacious double or twin beds with en-suite, elegantly appointed bathrooms. There is an open bar, lounge and dining room with an exceptionally inviting infinity pool overlooking the Meru plains.
Elsa’s Private House is set slightly apart from the main lodge. It has 1 double room and 1 twin, both with en-suite bathrooms. There is a living and dining area, leading seamlessly outdoors into its own private swimming pool.
Elsa’s Honeymoon Suite is a 3 level room, with a double bed and en-suite bathroom. With its breathtaking views, this latest addition is most definitely Elsas ‘pride’!
At Elsa’s Kopje, you can experience day and night game drives with highly trained drivers, bush walks with guides and rangers, or cool yourself and take a dip in the swimming pool that has a view that looks out onto the plains, or spoil yourself to a massage.
Each cottage is provided with a private butler who will be at your service at all times.
Meru National Park can be visited throughout the year. A visit/Safari to Meru National Park is best combined with the nearby attractions which include Mount Kenya National Park, Lewa Dawns, Samburu, Buffalo Springs, Shaba Reserve and Sweet Waters game sanctuary.
Just email us and let us organize a wonderful safari to these places including Masai, Serengeti, Manyara, Ngorongoro and Lake Nakuru Combinations
