Day 3 in Meru National Park
Meru was a special place when I came here as a child to stay at Meru Mulika and it is still a special place now with its 14 rivers rising out of the Nyambene’s and criss crossing the park and the raw wilderness and dense vegetation that supports quite a diverse amount of wildlife!!
This morning i was able to drag myself out of bed before 530 and watching the changes of the colors in the sky was liking watching a Master Artist swooshing a paintbrush accross the sky from dark to light and various colors of pink and orange and red , by the time the sun was up the drama of the colors had finished and Martin my trusty room steward arrived with my hot water for my herbal tea to get me going and it was time to head out while air was still cool and pleasant. Our mission today was to find rhinos so we headed northwards to the Rhino Sanctuary that is well fortified but otherwise looks very much like the rest of the park, lush and bushy and lots of gorgeous flowering trees….finally we encountered a mother and her calf and soon after that another two and then another two interspersed with sightings of a wide array of other animals and a school bus of young children who looked very excited to be here!!!! Today probably should be called “ LOVE IN THE AFRICAN BUSH” as we encountered two lions mating and not too long later giraffes trying to do the same thing!! In no time at all it was time to have breakfast and we rounded a corner and found a bush breakfast beautifully set up for us which we enjoyed with an Australian family !! Good food, wonderful atmosphere under the trees and convivial company …reluctantly we “saddled up” and start our drive back to the lodge, feeling hot but happily replete
After a siesta and lunch not necessarily in that order we headed out for our afternoon game drive!! It was a scenic drive complete with a herd of elephants that ran accross the road in front of us and some Bulls that checked us out thoroughly before running after the herd!! Every evening we have enjoyed sundowners at different locations and this evening the lodge set up sundowners in a lovely location close to a herd of Buffalo and that afforded us a great opportunity to watch the sun descend behind the Nyambene Mountains ….it was indeed another great day in Meru National Park and as we retire for the night tired but content , we look forward to exploring more of Meru NP in the morning
