Outspan Hotel

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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. Famous visitor include Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell and his wife Olave Baden-Powell from 1938 until Baden-Powell's death in 1941. Jim Corbett also lived there.[1]

The hotel is liaisoned with the Treetops Hotel, approximately 15 km away in the Aberdare Range.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Walker, Eric Sherbrooke (1962). Treetops Hotel. London: Robert Hale Publishing.