THE QUIETEST HOTEL
The world's queerest find quietest hotel is Treetops, a two-roomed bungalow Tjuilfc high up in the branches of a great tree in the heart of the forest twelve miles from Nyeri, Kenya Colony. It. stands a few miles from the- foot of Mount Kenya, and is exactly on the Equator. The -hotel overlooks an. open space in the centre of which is a water hole, visited at night by elephants., leopards, hyenas, rhinoceroses, and monkeys. Visitors spend the night there just to see the animals, but they must be aloft before four o'clock. No shooting or smoking is permitted, and silence is strictly enforced. Letters are sent from the tree bungalow by pigeon, post to Nyeri.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 83, 9 April 1934, Page 16
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119THE QUIETEST HOTEL Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 83, 9 April 1934, Page 16
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