Meru is a savannah National park. The area is crossed by numerous permanent streams, draining from Nyambenes.
Meru National park has a variety of game which includes gravy’s zebra, elephants, eland, bush pig, common waterbuck, lion, cheetah, leopard, reedbuck, hartebeest, buffalo, gerenuk, reptiles like python, puff adder, cobra etc and more than 300 species of birds recorded.
Other attraction includes former home of Joy and George Adamson and Elsa the lioness; views of Mount Kenya, rivers and riverine habitats, Tana River and Adams falls.
