Chief Scout Of The World

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I placed this cache while I was doing my practical work in Kenya. There is agreement with the security guards and the staff, they should know about geocaching and the logpaper (but: the staff and guards seems to be change frequently)

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. (© www.famouspeople.com)

Additional Hints ( Decrypt ) 

Decryption Key
A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z
(letter above equals below,
and vice versa)

Frpbaq qenjre sebz gur obggbz ba gur evtug bs gur ohernh (Decrypted Hints)

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Cache Logs

July 10 by fat bloke (2069 found) After two days in the Samburu national park the cache was found on the way to tree tops for an overnight stay, where we saw a Black Rhino at 2am the whole hotel got up! cache soon found with out the help of two giggling staff SL TFTH vey intresting [view this log] Outside Inside Tree tops

June 29 by zoug (69 found) 4th cache in kenya, we did this one on our road from Mt Kenya to lake nakuru staff was aware of it so it was easy it was nice visiting this place and we defenetly converted our guide to geocaching with this one! No trade TFTC ! The frenchies Letty & Zoug [view this log]

June 25 by vere1998 (29 found) My first cache in Africa! [view this log]

June 25 by axarna (103 found) Found the bureau and the rigth drawer with a lot of envelopes. Since the guide didn´t know anything about the cache we couldn´t search for the log book. So we left note on a paper instead. We found this cache together with Vere1998 while waiting for transport to Treetops. [This entry was edited by axarna on Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 2:35:35 PM.] [view this log]

June 11 by the_morcoms (50 found) On honeymoon in Kenya and decided to try for this Geocache (our first international cache!) as Paul has grown up in the Scouts and we were doing one night at Treetops. Had no problem being let into "Paxtu" but Francis, the guard, was baffled about what a geocache was! We checked the desk and found a collection of papers and letters in the third drawer down on the right, and what seemed to be a make-shift log book in the bottom drawer so signed that! Left our group neckerchief and badge along with our district and county badge to add to the growing collection. Paid our 200KS, took lots of photos then went back to enjoy the rest of our day and night at treetops. [view this log] us at cache

Current time: 11/22/2009 1:43:41 AM
Last Updated: 7/22/2009 12:29:59 PM
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum