Bryan did a fabulous job at planning our honeymoon. It was all supposed to be a surprise but after wedding #1 I needed some encouragement to get through wedding #2 - so he told me the details before we left. The first stop on the honeymoon safari of our dreams was in Meru National Park. It's this fabulous park north east of Mt. Kenya. The park has 8 permanent rivers through it and there are only a few lodges that access it. That means that the game is fabulous and there are very few people around. We actually didn't see anyone else the whole time we were there. There is a rhino conservation on one end of the park that we didn't make it to but I hear is wonderful. We fit in as many game drives as possible - which means that we were on the road at 6:30 am and did two drives a day. Not much of a sleep in honeymoon but it was fabulous to wake up, bundle up, get into a landcruiser and watch the animals as the sun rises. We also got to do a little fishing. It was great fun! We were catching catfish rather easily. It was so much fun to stand on the banks of a Kenyan river with the snorts coming from the hippos upriver and the crashing elephants on the other side. I highly recommend that you fit fishing in when you come for your visit. 
The lodge we were staying at is called Else's Kopje. It's a lodge that's built into a hill in the park. Our room was absolutely amazing! It was two floors plus a sun-deck off the top of the room. The first floor had a couple of day beds on it which you could relax on and with your binoculars watch the game go by at the base of the hill. The second floor was the bedroom and the bathroom. Because of the way the room is built no one can see into the massive open windows at the front of the room. That means that you can have a loo with a view! Yep, no more magazine reading on the toilet - there is lots to look at. And if you decide not to go on the early game drive you can watch the sunrise from the comfort of your bed. One thing that I love about Kenya is the level of service and hospitality that you receive. It seemed like every time we would leave our room someone would be in there cleaning and making sure that our room was perfect. The food was fabulous and all the staff were so kind. Of course they all loved Bryan - a white guy that speaks Swahili is not all that common. The managers were so kind and we enjoyed our evening drinks with them chatting about life, Kenya and our future. Meru was my favorite park. There was something about it that made you feel like the only one in Kenya enjoying the beauty that surrounded us.
Next stop, Maasai Mara. We hopped back on the plane with a few stops between but we made it for our next location of the dream honeymoon safari ....
