Outspan Hotel

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The Outspan Hotel, located in Nyeri, Kenya, was developed from an old farm by Eric Sherbrooke Walker during the 1920s.

In 1928, Walker opened the Outspan Hotel on {{convert|28|ha}} of Crown Land in Nyeri, overlooking the gorge of a river in the Aberdare Range.{{cite book | last = Prickett | first = R.J | title = Treetops: Story of A World Famous Hotel | publisher = David St John Thomas Publishers | location = Nairn, Scotland | year = 1995 | isbn = 0-7153-9020-1}}{{pn|date=January 2019}}

The hotel now features 45 rooms on {{cvt|20|acre|ha|disp=flip}} of landscaped gardens.{{cite web| url = http://outspan.co.ke/about-us| title = About Us}}

Background

In 1939, Baden-Powell and his wife Olave moved into a cottage he had commissioned on the hotel grounds.{{cite book |first=Tim |last=Jeal |authorlink=Tim Jeal |title=Baden-Powell

|publisher=Hutchinson |location=London |year=1989 |isbn=0-09-170670-X|title-link=Baden-Powell (book) }} The Paxtu cottage is now part of the hotel complex and serves as a small Scouting museum dedicated to scouting.{{cite web|title=Why did Baden Powell choose Nyeri, Kenya as his last home?|url=https://www.scout.org/node/24290|website=Scouts|publisher=World Organization of the Scout Movement|date=24 January 2014|accessdate=24 July 2016|url-status=live | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160605075158/https://www.scout.org/node/24290 | archivedate=5 June 2016}} {{Cite web |date=2022-02-20 |title=The Fate of the Iconic Scouts Museum in Nyeri – Kenya News Agency |url=https://www.kenyanews.go.ke/the-fate-of-the-iconic-scouts-museum-paxtu-in-nyeri-is-secured/ |access-date=2025-06-01 |language=en-GB}}

The hunter Jim Corbett also lived there.{{Cite news |last=Best |first=Nicholas |date=8 January 2012 |title=The day Princess Elizabeth became Queen |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jan/08/queen-elizabeth-treetops-kenya |access-date=3 October 2024 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}

See also

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