Outspan Hotel
Building in Nyeri, Kenya
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The Outspan Hotel, located in Nyeri, Kenya, was developed from an old farm by Eric Sherbrooke Walker during the 1920s.
| Outspan Hotel | |
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Outspan Hotel, 1987 | |
 Interactive map of the Outspan Hotel area | |
| General information | |
| Location | Nyeri, Kenya |
| Coordinates | 0.4209°S 36.9418°E |
| Opened | 1928 |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 45 |
| Website | |
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In 1928, Walker opened the Outspan Hotel on 28 hectares (69 acres) of Crown Land in Nyeri, overlooking the gorge of a river in the Aberdare Range.[1][page needed]
The hotel now features 45 rooms on 8.1 ha (20 acres) of landscaped gardens.[2]
Background
In 1939, Baden-Powell and his wife Olave moved into a cottage he had commissioned on the hotel grounds.[3] The Paxtu cottage is now part of the hotel complex and serves as a small Scouting museum dedicated to scouting.[4][5]
The hunter Jim Corbett also lived there.[6]