Ikweta Safari Camp

Ikweta Safari camp is small. It comprises of 10 tents. Each tent is designed with an ensuite bathroom and shower. All tents face east to enjoy the sunrise. Night time is also beautiful. The camp is a convenient base for exploring Mt. Kenya. The park is also a birdwatchers’ paradise. The cuisine is prepared from local produce. All dishes are cooked to order. Vegetarian dishes are always on offer. Other features include a large swimming pool, backup generator and DSTv. Although Meru park can be visited alone, which is the norm, it is possible to bring a guide since guides’ quarters are available. Guides/Drivers are offered same meals as clients, if they prefer. This is part of their full-board accommodation tariff, which is nominal. Since opening  the camp has hosted many domestic and international guests, including several foreign and domestic film crews.

Meru national Park

From its vantage location just 2 km from the Murera Gate of Meru National Park, the Main Gate, the camp serves as a convenient base for exploring the complete wilderness of one of Kenya’s most beautiful national parks. The camp is about affordable safari luxury in the Mt. Kenya Region. Ikweta is also about offering personalised service and value for money.

Diverse eco-systems

Meru National Park is noted for its varied eco-systems – from thorny bushland in the North and South-East to tropical marshes and dense riverine forests of Doum and Raffia palm in the West with sizable waterways; from rain forest in the North-West to open grassland elsewhere.

Land of the Big-Five and birdwatchers’ paradise

The park teams with wildlife, including the famed Big Five. The Park is also a birdwatchers’ paradise with over 400 bird species reported. Meru National Park is associated with Elsa the Lioness and the film Born Free, a 1966 Technicolor British drama film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised Elsa, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood. Elsa’s Grave is at the southern end of Meru National Park off the northern bank of the Ura River and many visitors go there as part of their game safari to pay their respects. The camp is collaborating with Born Free Kenya and Kenya Wildlife Service in lion monitoring in Meru National Park. iKWETA guests while on game drives are encouraged to record information that will help identify individual lions as they move in and around the Park.