Cache
The cache is placed in the house
"Paxtu" on the grounds of the "Outspan hotel" (Outspan/Treetops).
Paxtu is the house of Baden Powell. If you arrive at the gate of
the hotel, you say you wanted to visit the "Baden Powell" house.
You have to walk to the reception of the Treetops hotel and ask
there the same question. A guard will bring you to the house. The
admission of the house is 200 ksh (around 2 euro). For uniformed
scouts and guides the entrance is for free. The cache is hidden in
the house! In the big room is a bureau. Take a look
in the second drawer from the
bottom on the right of the bureau and you will find some of the box contents (there should
be some log paper and otherwise place a paper by yourself)! You can
ask Micheal (guard) about geocaching when he is your guard. Also
the staff of the Outspan Hotel should know about the
geocaching.
In Nyeri, you can also visit the
grave of Baden Powell and his wife. The coordinates are S
00°25.127 E 36°57.013.
Sign in the
house
Paxtu
Paxtu is the name of the cottage
that is built for Baden Powell. In his house is a small museum with
information about the boy scouts, pictures of uniforms from all of
the world, a lot of scarfs which are dropped by scouts and a lot of
pictures of the boy scouts.
Baden
Powell
Baden Powell
He is known to this day around the
world as B-P. During his 83 years, he devoted himself to the
service of his country and his fellow men. This soldier, famous for
fighting for his country, would become a worker for peace through
the brotherhood of the world scouting movement. Robert Stephenson
Smith Baden-Powell was born in London, England, February 22, 1857.
He was the eight child of the family of ten children of the
Reverend Baden Powell, a professor at Oxford University. He would
be only three years old when his father died. The family was very
poor after the death of his father and he received his education
when he gained a scholarship to Charterhouse School in London. As a
youth he was eager to learn new skills. He played the piano and the
fiddle, he acted, he practiced manual endeavors such as
bricklaying, and he began his interest in the arts of woodcraft. He
joined the army and was commissioned straight into the 13th
Hussars. He distinguished himself with service in Africa, India,
and Malta. He worked his way up the line of command and by age 43
he became a Major-General. He wrote a book Aids to Scouting to help
train youth for responsible jobs for the army. By the time he
returned to England in 1903 he found that his book was being used
by youth leaders and teachers all over the country. In 1907 he held
an experimental youth camp at Brownsea Island in Dorset. Scouting
was established with the enjoyment or these first camping youth! In
1908 Baden Powel had to set up an office to deal with the large
number of inquiries which we pouring in concerning the movement.
Some enquiries were even being received from girls! He retired from
the Army in 1910 on the advice of King Edward VII who suggested
that B-P would provide a more valuable service to his country by
working with the scouting movement than he could ever hope to do as
a soldier. In 1912 he married Olave Soames. She would be the mother
of their three children and would become involved with the Girl
Guide/Scout movement becoming the World Chief Guide. It was in 1920
that B-P had become the World Chief Scout. And at the 3rd World
Jamboree, in 1929, it was announced that he had become Lord. He
took the honor of Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Gilwell Park being
the International Training Center. In 1938,
suffering from ill-health, he returned to Africa, to live in Nyeri,
Kenya. He died, January 8, 1941. He is buried in a simple
grave within sight of Mount Kenya. His headstone reads : "Robert
Baden Powell, Chief Scout of the World". Also inscribed on the
stone is a circle with a single dot in the centre. This is the
trail symbol for the end of the trail, I have gone home.
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