Meru National Park in Kenya is located East of Meru covering about  870-square-kilometre. It’s about 350kms from Nairobi City. Rainfall in this area is abundant resulting in tall grass and lush swamps. It was established in 1966. The park has a wide range of wild animals including the African bush elephants, lions,African leopard, cheetahs, Eastern black Rhino, southern white Rhino, Grevy’s Zebra and hippos. Meru was one of the two areas in which conservationists George Adamson and Joy Adamson raised Elsa the Lioness made famous 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 gravestone.