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n the death of her father, King George
The original Treetops was built by Major Eric
VI, on 6 February 1952, the young
George Sherbrooke Walker, who had come to
Princess Elizabeth became Queen
Kenya from Ethiopia. He settled in Nyeri and built
while on holiday at this lodge. Do you need any
Treetops in 1932. Treetops began with only three
more convincing, in the year of the Queen’s
rooms and bunk beds. Now it is a luxury lodge,
Diamond Jubilee, that Treetops is a special place?
complete with fine dining, where lovers can enjoy
Lovers often visit places to make memories, but
excellent meals by candlelight.
at Treetops the memories are already there. All lovers do is go there to be a part of them and to develop their own.
Romantic The showy at heart might impress their dates
Treetops is quaint and in its quaintness evokes
with their Wikipedia-informed knowledge of
a sense of raw romanticism. This is an old lodge
animals such as hyena and buffalo that come to the
dating from the 1930s. It was built during a
watering hole near the hotel to drink. But the truly
tumultuous time of colonisation and it burned down
romantic will show his date what the year 1951
during the ensuing colonial upheaval. The history
might have smelt like. He will walk his date to the
is undeniably rich and lovers f lock there because
library, where a simple old bookshelf, running the
of this – but also because it’s in the middle of
breadth of the room, contains hard-cover guest
nowhere in the heart of Aberdare National Park.
books, marked according to the years from 1951 to