Dimensions: 10.4 x 14.7 cm. (4 x 5.7″)

Publisher/Editor: Sapra Studio, Nairobi

Condition: Postally unused, backside empty. Good condition with some signs of age.

Notes: Treetops Hotel was a hotel in Aberdare National Park in Kenya near the township of Nyeri, 1,966 m (6,450 ft) above sea level on the Aberdare Range and in sight of Mount Kenya. First opened in 1932 by Eric Sherbrooke Walker, it was built into the tops of the trees of Aberdare National Park as a treehouse, offering the guests a close view of the local wildlife. The idea was to provide a machan (hunting platform on a tree during shikar in India) experience in relative safety and comfort. From the original modest two-room tree house, it has grown into a 35-room hotel. The original structure was burned down by The Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA) during the 1954 Mau Mau Uprising, but the hotel was rebuilt near the same waterhole and has become fashionable for many of the rich and famous. It includes observation lounges and ground-level photographic hides from which guests can observe the local wildlife which comes to the nearby waterholes. The hotel closed in October 2021.

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. 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.

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. (Wikipedia)