The Outspan Hotel is in

Nyeri Nyeri is a town situated in the Central Highlands of Kenya. It is the county headquarters of Nyeri County. The town was the central administrative headquarters of the country's former Central Province. Following the dissolution of the former pr ...

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. It was built up from an old farm by Eric Sherbrooke Walker in the 1920s. Walker had purchased of

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in Nyeri and in 1928, opened the Outspan Hotel, overlooking the

gorge A canyon (from ; archaic British English spelling: ''cañon''), or gorge, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. Rivers have a natural tendency to cu ...

of a river in the

Aberdare Range The Aberdare Range (formerly the Sattima Range, Kikuyu: ''Nyandarua'') is a 160 km (100 mile) long mountain range of upland, north of Kenya's capital Nairobi with an average elevation of . It straddles across the counties of Nyandarua, Nye ...

. The hotel now has 45 rooms on of gardens.

Background

In 1939,

Baden-Powell Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, ( ; (Commonly pronounced by others as ) 22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the worl ...

and his wife Olave moved to a cottage he had commissioned on the grounds of the hotel. The Paxtu cottage is integrated into the hotel buildings and serves as a small Scouting museum. The hunter

Jim Corbett Edward James Corbett (25 July 1875 – 19 April 1955) was a British hunter, tracker, naturalist, and author who hunted a number of man-eating tigers and leopards in the Indian subcontinent. He held the rank of colonel in the British Indian ...

also lived there.

References

{{reflist Hotels in Kenya Hotels established in 1928 Hotel buildings completed in 1928

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