Never Knew Meru Town was this Expansive! Trip from Chuka Town to Meru
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- Meru is a town in eastern Kenya. It is the headquarters of Meru County and the seventh-largest urban center in the country. Meru forms a municipal council with a population of 240,900 residents
Meru town is the Commercial capital of Northern and Eastern Kenya. It hosts a Central Bank of Kenya’s Currency Centre serving the North Eastern Half of Kenya. Meru has 22 bank branches. while several micro-finance institutions are also available. Mwalimu Cooperative Savings & Credit Society Limited, (Mwalimu Sacco), the largest Sacco in Kenya, maintains a branch in Meru. The town is the business and agricultural center for north-eastern Kenya.
Meru County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya, located in the former Eastern Province. It borders Isiolo County to the North, Tharaka/Nithi County to the East, Nyeri County to the South West and Laikipia County to the West. It covers a total area of 7,006 Km2 out of which part of it 972.3Km2 is gazetted as forest.
It has a population of 1.55 million people. Meru County is the home of the Ngaa people (Meru), who are related to other ethnicities living around the Mount Kenya region: the Kikuyu, Embu people and to some extent the Kamba people Also, peoples from the east coast of Kenya, along the Indian Ocean, like the Bajuni, Swahili, Mijikenda, and further inland, the Taita, Taveta and westwards to the Lake Victoria coast, the Kisii and Maragoli as well as other Luhya people, are all related to the Meru.
Chuka is a town on the eastern slopes of Mount Kenya, in Kenya about 65 km south Of Meru Town. It falls within Tharaka-Nithi County and the former Eastern Province. Between 1992 and 2009, Chuka was the capital of Tharaka Nithi District (split off from Meru District). Tharaka Nithi District was further split into Meru South and Tharaka Districts with Chuka remaining the Capital of Meru South. Later, Meru South and Tharaka were amalgamated into Tharaka-Nithi County.
Chuka Town is chiefly occupied by the Chuka people, one of the nine Meru dialect Speakers. They dwell on the south-eastern slopes of Mt. Kenya, and cover the area between the Thuci River in the south, and the Nithi River in the north. It is a common tradition with the Chuka that they have always been in the forests of Mt. Kenya hence they moved down to their present abode. Other versions of the Chuka migratory tradition say that they came out from Mbwa with the other Meru.
The Chuka are believed to have sprung from the Tharaka, another of the meru subtribes. They have also a form of blood-brotherhood with the Igembe and the Tigania of the northern meru dialects. The Chuka are primarily Meru who, having climbed the first slopes of Mt. Kenya, clearing the forest for cultivation (even at present the fields of the Chuka are on the lower section of their country), mixed with the aboriginal inhabitants of the forest and established some kind of contact with the Embu. These aboriginal forest inhabitants seem to have been the Gumba, now only remembered by some traditions and described as very small people. It seems certain that they were a pygmy race.
Colleges have recently blossomed in Chuka and its vicinity with Chuka University being the major.new development, headed by Prof. Njoka. W
Tharaka-Nithi County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya located in Kenya's former Eastern Province. The county has an area of 2609 km2 and as of the 2019 census a population of 393,177.
Tharaka-Nithi County is the home to the Chuka, Muthambi, Mwimbi and Tharaka sections of the Ameru (Meru) community. The people of Tharaka-Nithi County are nowo predominantly Christian with the Catholics, the Presbyterian, and the Methodists being the predominant religion..
The county consists of three constituencies: Maara, Chuka/Igambang'ombe, Tharaka.
In 1992 Meru District, sometimes called "Greater Meru" was broken up into four pieces, Meru Central, Meru North, Meru South and Tharaka; with Meru South (also known as Nithi District) combined with Tharaka into a new Tharaka-Nithi District. In 1998, the Tharaka Nithi District was split into two districts, Nithi and Tharaka, but the Kenya Supreme Court decision of 2009 declared that split unconstitutional. Subsequently, under the revised constitution of 2010, Tharaka-Nithi became a county
Nkubu is a town in Kenya. It is located on the eastern slopes of Mount Kenya, within Meru County. It falls in one of the most-fertile and best-watered parts of Africa, with tea, coffee and dairy farming as the main economic activities in the area. It is also the lead town in South Imenti Constituency.
The town is a trade hub with several businesses, and several banks: Equity Bank, Family Bank, Cooperative bank, Kenya Commercial Bank and anumber of Sacco.
Source:Wikipedia
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Watching from Tokyo....Meru town...my home town! Thank you for showing the wealth of Meru. I hope our leaders know that they have a town with great potential. It needs better drainage and planning.
I hope so too
The place you called Chogoria is known as Marima. Chogoria town is Like 1km from the main Meru-Nairobi Highway. Thanks for showcasing the beautiful Meru.
Finally, my home and my county. Beautiful Meru.
Meru is so beautiful indeed amazing epic drone shots
Thanks Kevoo
Welcome bro
Meru has much deeper African roots stretching back to antiquity/ancient times which has implications on modern day Africa & Africa's elationship with the rest of the World 🌎!
Your Love for Meru is self evident John, & with it's gorgeous beauty it's not hard to see why..what a Blessed place/land!
Thanks for continuing to showcase our Beloved Mama Africa 🙏🏾 & keep up the good work 👍🏾
Understand some merus are Jews from Ethiopia n Yemen like the imenti n some tiganiyas(Tigrinya). anthropologists may help here
Take drone shots of the tea belt from Chogoria to Githongo then the expansive wheat plantations in Timau. Simply breathtaking.
Meru Municipality includes Downton Meru(what you assumed is Meru), Gakoromone(one of the country's larger open air markets), Gitimbine, Gikumene, Milimani(the older leafy suburb), Kinoru(where one of Kenya's bigger stadiums is), Makutano (the 24 hour Westlands of Meru), Kaaga(where most schools are), Gakurine(Kemu's dormitory), Mwiteria (where the industrial estates are)
Thank you the detailed info on the Town.
Wait i thought the largest is in mombasa(market)
@@kevinstanley6174 Kizungu yako ndio shida. Tofautisha kati ya "one of the larger" na "the largest." The largest market in Kenya would be Karatina.
@@kevmwenda4044 well.....my bad homie
Watching from Perth, Australia and I am overwhelmed by overriding nostalgia watching my hometown of Nkubu. I didn't realize how much I missed home until I saw this.
That was my high school town… St Pius 😂
@@AnalystTosh I was at Nkubu Primary School, just near X Pius...10 years away from home
@@kinotikenneth8135 I know Nkubu Primo… KCSE I did back in 2001
@kinoti Kenneth which part of Perth? Murdoch
@@justmoh8592 Hello Moh, I am in Gosnells but I have friends over at Murdoch, are you in Aussie?
Am a kisii and always thought my home was green and cool but this one is the coolest one.awwwwww I now want to literally live here.i could literally live here and be content with life.am a country girl and I could live here.awwwwwww!!! I love meru I should visit it one day.
The region is adjacent to Mt.Kenya giving it that beautiful vegetation. Beautiful trip.
Kabisa
Beautiful is an understatement. Had no clue that Meru looks like this.
Kisii and Meru were separated at birth...bananas, hot tempers, accents...
I hear we are cousins
Tried to unravel the kisii Meru cousinage.whats the true story please?
@@NgugiKamau-rr3zpI have studied it for long. I wish I could share but I didn’t document my findings. Both tribes claim to have come from Egypt and the claims place them to the reign of Pharaoh Mentuhotep or Muntu. Tigania in both languages means to separate, it came from when they parted in Egypt. I visited Chuka and I thought I was in Ogembo. The environment and people look the same. My family is Kisii and we have married 3 women from Meru.
Great job! I hope you also did the tea zone loop, Meru-Githongo-Kionyo-Chogoria, super beautiful!
No I dnt manage, will sure exploit on the next trip.
Meru is TOP FIVE RICHEST COUNTIES in Kenya...........❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The guy explaining did not quite get your question. Tharaka-Nithi county comprises of the following sections (subtribes/dialects) of the Ameru: the Chuka (Chuka Igambangome constituency), the Mwimbi, the Muthambi (Maara constituency, and the Tharaka (Tharaka constituency). Meru county compries, from the far North: the Igembe, the Tigania, the Imenti, and the Mitine. Interestingly, each big river separates these communities. At Nchiru, near Meru University, you missed the Njuri Ncheke Court/Parliament. Njuri Ncheke is the supreme court of the Ameru.
Thank you sir for the memories.. I'm a former student of Meru Technical High School now known as Meru National Polytechnic.
Thanks Afrikan Traveller for another fine content.Sorry to hear that your family was affected by the Tribal clashes of 2007/08.I believe Kenya can learn from Tanzania in overcoming Tribalism by encouraging the use of Kiswahili as our main language.Tanzania has being able to unite 120 Tribes to one Nation and we in Kenya still having trouble with 45 Tribes.A good example is the current fallout in Kenya Kwanza and Azimio over the running mates Tribe
It's all good now, I hope and pray we shall never get to be in the same shoe as 2007. Our politics is very divisive, unfortunately.
Tanzania was blessed with a nationalist, a patriotic leader who saw Tanzania as a united land, kenya unfortunately got a tribal leader, RIP mzee Nyerere, you left a country united and you were not corrupt or a land grabber.
@@AfrikanTraveller May hope also .Right now Kenyan biggest challenge is taming the run-a-way corruption that is creating poverty.Remember poverty is leading cause of violence including Tribalism since when tribes believe they are being denied their fair share of resources they will turn to violence to claim the resources.
@@jamessitati7396 Very true Mwalimu Nyerere identified tribalism as the biggest challenge young African Nations will face after Independence and put strategies in place like getting rid of Tribal Chiefs,.encouraged Kiswahili as the communication language in all aspects of Tanzanians activities.Tanzania ID or Passports one was not asked for their Tribes.This fostered National unity
It's sad that #Afrikantraveller and so many silent kenyans were affected by the clashes we are looking forward for a peaceful transition 2022 may God bless kenya.
Hi, Afrikan Traveller. Yes Meru is magical but you haven’t seen the real magical. Take a and use Meru-Katheri- Kionyo- Chogoria Road. Canada in Meru
It's super beautiful. The meanders though...
Lazima on my next trip...Naambiwa sana.
Meru town is huge. Btw Meru county spans all the way to Nanyuki. Buuri constituency is where you find most of the wheat and canola farms. The county also has the famous Lewa conservancy.
Wow! Its indeed Big and Very Productive
Thanks for the coverage of our beautiful county. Grew up in Nkubu and loved it even saw my childhood home in the clip. Did anyone manage to spot Consolata hospital on the drone footage?
Good quality drone shots , h've been on the road to all those towns , but now with an arial view I enjoyed the trip more.
Thanks 👍
Watching , thanks for showing our city
Great job African traveller,but ithink when visiting new places like meru you should consider looking for a local tour guide who will be giving you actual information like names of towns and also take you to various sites that may attract antetion of local and international tourist who flock your channel .Thankyou.
Waoooooo I love this video... I'll plan on visiting Meru for sure...Mama B here
Great to see you mama B
Meru's ambience is wonderful the trees & greenery very attractive for settlement.
I love to leave in search a place.
Next visit cover Gitimbine, Mwiteria, Kaaga Gikumene and Kathumbi areas. There are also part of Municipality
Gorgeous Area 😃👌🏾I must commend you on your Team's Editing and Camera Work. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💯
Asante
Hii inakaa kwetu kisii Bana.. great stuff African traveller 👏👏👏👏
So much similarities indeed!
EXCELLENT PRESENTATION OF MERU AREA, YES VERY GREEN..HI from Gulf coast of Mississippi.
Chuka,my second home❤
You echoed my sentiments exactly. The weather there is my kinda weather. Cool and rainy.I could see myself living there no problems. Meru ni kuzuri, i just need to brush up on my kuchana veve skills🤣🤣. Haven't done that since the 80s and 90s back in Eastleigh na Woria. Thanks for the tour.
Hahaha sikuhizi wako na Juice yake... Karibu Sana
Your beat selection is incredible
beautiful place, great work.
Thank you
Good Job showing the gem of Kenya.
thank you for taking us along
You most welcome Sonia.
Absolutely 💯 amazing shots,the green country,gud jb bro,ur insights💪Dubai,UAE
Glad you enjoyed
@@AfrikanTraveller kbsaaa
Woow my home town nkubu , Thankyou African traveller you are doing great job may God expound your networks
You make me miss home every time. Thank you for your consistency.
Asante
Woow....how I love my homeland Meru.
Mh! Meru kuzuri sana👍🏽And,very hard working people.
MERU County Land of honey,milk and sweet Bananas.
Greatness💪...kuja na mbogi ya joyland ruaka niwaoneshe place tutakula meru..
Hahaha
My home 🏡 ♥️ village beautiful and amazing all the way from united states 🇺🇸
It really is!
You're are calling one of the fastest growing towns in Africa a village? I'm sorry but this is disrespectful
Woah 😍🤩
Meru is great.
I love it.
That Nithi bridge is a notorious blackspot bt that hill is thrilling if you have a powerful car😋
Thrilling indeed!
KENYA IS BEAUTIFUL, A COUNTRY FULL OF UNTAPPED OPPORTUNITIES, KEEP THEM COMING SIR.
Asante Sana Kaka, I will keep them coming.
Going to comment section I see how my home town people miss home ,,,,mugeni mbwithe ,,'😊
Thanks 👍👍👍 this time you have done us pride
Former student of Meru school and Kajiunduthi high school
I used to work at maua 2009 beautiful small town love 💕
Great work, next time, drone shot of KATHITA FALLS, THE BIG ONE AND THE SMALLER ONE
Thank you for covering Meru next time try usimame chogoria and capture it too you just drove past. I am from chogoria
Nkubu Town. Hoooome. Wooow
Karibu Meru. Good work man.
Asante
It is the true garden of eden ,well spoken brother. Good views , good vibes as always.
Much appreciated
in the building watching from barbados 😎😎😎
Karibu sana Kaka.
I have lived in Meru for 4yrs and l can tell you that place is Canaan here on earth with wonderfully people ...cheap foods everywhere it's always ever green
Truly Blessed Land
I waited to see an interview with Vaite: aki shikisha hehehe... cool town i love it
Do Isiolo town next and make sure you look for me😅
Kumbe wewe ndio ulipitisha drone kwangu,, nmekushika😂 anyways beautiful view
Thanks for sharing. Great video. I love meru. Hizo toyota hilux za miraa🙈🙈 the government should get them an airstrip to transport miraa to the airport to save them time and accidents 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
I would be the most ideal situation or they use the Isiolo one, very close to Meru.
Meru my home! Beautiful 😍😍
We are home. Welcome to our land @Afrikan Traveller
Its super green and actually it rains alot in meru all that Area
Great vlog
Woow my home town there.... WATCHING from DRC CONGO
Ozali nini !haha!what's taking soo many Kenyans to the rdc?
Just for information, Nithi bridge is exactly halfway between Embu and Meru towns, 46.5 km from either end.
I knew you would love Meru, it's hard not to.
Meru is so blessed in many ways and looks so much like Kisii.
@@AfrikanTraveller That's what my wife says, I must get to Kisii.
Wow. just wow!
There 99... Bends.. From makutano mwea... To meru town..
.. The total cost of construction of meru... Thuci road... Is equal to all mombasa rd from nrb.. To mbs... Due to bridges
.. We also supply... Canola... Wheat... Cotton.. Cut flowers... Timau is part of meru..
Blessed Land, The Garden of Eden
Ntharene market is one the largest Banana market in the region...my home place
What you labelled as Chogoria is actually Marima. Chogoria town is past Marima, on the left, and is not visible from the main road.
Great video.
Sure!
Waw! Meru is beautiful, but it a mount Kenya region not in Northern Kenya,
*Finally watu wa kericho tumepata place inatupea compe kwa greenery.* 😁
Mt kenya yote ni green
Kenya government should decentralize the capital city to meru and get them a major airport and sgr
So much Potential from this green town
Nkubu hometown ❤
My city my town❤
My second home kirege area Tharaka nithi bananas and Tea mostly grown crops
Memories Kibao
Meru my home county
Beautiful 🤩
I would like to request the new kirigiti stadium 🏟
In my opinion,apart from kisii town and eldoret town,no other town beats meru on anything 🙏
What do you mean???? So meru is better than Nakuru, Kakamega, Mombasa, Naivasha, Kisumu???
Not the word town 😅.toa Nakuru , Kisumu apo
Comparatively kakamega and naivasha are villages, Meru can be mentioned in the same breath as nyeri, malindi and thika
@@oyalowycliffe6963 Kakamega no, especially the business area, better than what I am seeing here but almost the same, I think
Central business district Meru beats kakamega, but greenery no....kakamega has more vegetation than Meru. Remember kakamega forest is the only natural forest in Kenya and stretches up to Nandi
NICE ONE
Thanks for watching, Bro.
Tharaka Nithi has Chuka, Tharaka, Muthambi, Igoji and Mwimbi, which are part of the Meru people.
Great job, and that weed is it the one referred as Thiina, in 'French'
You mean "French" "French"? Or "French". "Problems" Kinda French?
@@user-vu2uw3ly6x Ooops.... I mean Kikuyu
You mentioned 07/08 PEV and my heart started to bleed... kenyans please🙏
Meru looks very beautiful from above
It does! Should do something about the towns infrastructure
@@AfrikanTraveller Agreed, the town is in need of proper replanning, and upgrade of infrastructure.
Afrikan Traveller hope is you may have resources to visit Tanzania as the have many attractive areas like climbing Mt Kilimanjaro up to the snow belt .Dar -es -salaam and Ngorongoro crater..etc and even learn from the Tanzanians how the overcame the problem of Tribalism something which we Kenyans and other Africans Nations like Ethiopia ,S.Sudan,DRC.etc can learn from
Kenya also has Mt Kenya to climb,beautiful scenery like Meru etc and Kenyans who are not tribal. He can speak to those Kenyans so that people like you know that it is not all doom and gloom in Kenya!!
@@esem135 Read the title it's called Afrikan Traveller meaning he travelers in many areas not just Kenya .He visited Ghana last year i believe.So you saying that is gloom and doom in Kenya shows your shallow thinking bro.
People like you are the reason why Kenya/Africa cannot progress because you have shallow minds and accepted impunity as the way things are Kenya/Africa very sad
I hope one day will get there.
I love my home town
Good stuff.
embu my home
Watching from Nebraska USA
No offense, what is in Nebraska? Like attractions etc? I have driven through Nebraska I-80 along with Wyoming, Kansas through I-70. And those have been the most boring drives I have done in US. A bunch of corn farms and Wyoming is just plain. On the hand,Colorado west from Denver was the best and scenic I have ever had in US also plenty of attractions.
Thank you. The Grain Basket.
@@westmax8491 The man said he is watching from Nebraska. I doubt he meant to compare the 2 places.
Meru is indeed a beautiful and expansive place.. that's home, otherwise Makutano is in Meru town.
Chuka my home town
Miraa is from Igembe or Ntonyiri. Not tigania. Tigania grows cereals and herding mostly.
You are very clueless tigania east has alot of miraa
@@AmazingMania I stand corrected
@@kenfreykj Tigania East has a lot of miraa, but Tigania west doesn't.....if you look at the old map, nyambene region includes Igembe and Tigania.....to the east we have Igembe south constituency and Tigania East Constituency....these two constituencies are directly on the leeward side of Nyambene hills, the red soils there are important for tea and miraa... But miraa trade is well established in Maua which is in Igembe South... Generally Igembe region is a lot of miraa but Tigania East has equally the same amount......only that miraa is not the only crop there.....isingekuwa ujinga ya kiraitu , Nyambene could be a county on its own....probably the richest county coz the cashflow there is huge
First here
Kama kawa Mzitoh
I see bro
AWESOME
The Embu- Meru road was built by the British, The Queen opened the road.
good thing
Why are you saying meru is capital of north Kenya, thats development bias, its either Marsabit town, small but the county had highest improvement in GDP, plus its an oasis in the dry place/ Isiolo... sincce that is what the long term plan of the goverment to do.... you probably have a valid reason, I dont know but I think its too close to central and mount Kenya
maralal or lodwar should improve for north west
This is where you find everything when it comes to Goods and Services. It's the largest Urban area facts are facts and plans are plans.
@@AfrikanTraveller I agree, obviously... just that it is not located in the area we know and call northern Kenya... I don"t know though, personallyI thought isiolo and maralal were the least north towns, but yeah, they do business with north Kenya
@@rockstarlifestyle9980 Isiolo town is literary 20 minutes from Meru. About being the Commercial capital of Northern and Eastern Kenya he doesn't mean it's in Northern Kenya but the biggest town that serves the upper part of the country. In Meru you will find anything. Just like Nairobi is the business hub of East and Central Africa. Kigali is closer to Kampala than Nairobi, right???
@@infohousetechnologies it stands, but not literally, Its the last big commercial hub when travelling north of Kenya... just the way he said capital made it seem like they share problems and secludes the places those people would probably know or called capital,
isiolo should have been the least though, I wouldnt even call KItale north of Kenya and its higher on tha map, Its 20 minutes, yeah, but of pure north traveling
@@infohousetechnologies I wanted this article though, Best one today, maralal or marsabit wouldnt have made a good one like this must admit... or God forbid, lodwar, wajir mandera
mmeru hakosi panga kwa mkono