title: Outspan Hotel
text: # Outspan Hotel
  
  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.
  
  The hotel now has 45 rooms on 8.1 ha (20 acres) of gardens.
  
  ## Background
  
  In 1939, Baden-Powell 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 also lived there.
  
  