The Outspan Hotel is in Nyeri, Kenya. It was built up from an old farm by Eric Sherbrooke Walker in the 1920s.
| Outspan Hotel | |
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 View toward Mount Kenya from the Outspan Hotel in 1936 | |
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| General information | |
| Town or city | Nyeri |
| Country | Kenya |
| Coordinates | 0°25′15″S 36°56′30″E / 0.4209°S 36.9418°E |
| Opened | 1928 |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 45 |
| Website | |
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Walker had purchased 28 hectares (69 acres) of Crown Land in Nyeri and in 1928, opened the Outspan Hotel, overlooking the gorge of a river in the Aberdare Range.[1][page needed]
The hotel now has 45 rooms on 8.1 ha (20 acres) of gardens.[2]
Background
editIn 1939, Baden-Powell and his wife Olave moved to a cottage he had commissioned on the grounds of the hotel.[3] The Paxtu cottage is integrated into the hotel buildings and serves as a small Scouting museum.[4]
The hunter Jim Corbett also lived there.[5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Prickett, R.J (1995). Treetops: Story of A World Famous Hotel. Nairn, Scotland: David St John Thomas Publishers. ISBN 0-7153-9020-1.
- ^ "About Us".
- ^ Jeal, Tim (1989). Baden-Powell. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-170670-X.
- ^ "Why did Baden Powell choose Nyeri, Kenya as his last home?". Scouts. World Organization of the Scout Movement. 24 January 2014. Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
- ^ Best, Nicholas (2012-01-08). "The day Princess Elizabeth became Queen". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2024-10-03.