Outspan Hotel
| 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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The Outspan Hotel is in Nyeri, Kenya. It was built up from an old farm by Eric Sherbrooke Walker in the 1920s.
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
[edit]In 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
[edit]References
[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.