June 4, 2018

Kenya’s Treetops Lodge and Outspan Hotel

It was Major Sherbrooke Walker who erected the Treetops Hotel on a fig tree in 1932 at the request of Lady Bettie Fielding, his wife. She wanted a tree house like the one in the play Peter Pan. It was built near a wallow where wild beasts came for salt lick and refreshment. The base before the visits to Treetops is the Outspan Hotel, an ideal getaway with great ambience, verdant green lawns and vibrant gardens where peacocks roam at will. The hotel is set in Kenya’s coffee and tea growing highlands in the green grounds near the Karuru Falls.

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