This is the place where Lord Baden Powell and Lady Powell are buried. The house still stands in the hotel's beautiful landscaped grounds. Leaving your case at the Outspan and packing an overnight bag, you leave the Hotel about 3pm. To get to Treetops you pile into a ramshakle old bus and travel 10 miles over fairly rough roads and tracks. When you arrive you leave your vehicle and walk the remaining few hundred yards with an armed guard who has already warned you to be quiet and not to smoke.
Treetops certainly do things with style.
When you arrive in the afternoon there is tea, cucumber sandwiches and scones up on the roof overlooking the waterhole. There are outside spiral steps that take you from floor to floor. They have a good system at most lodges, you can arrange to be called if anything unusual comes to the water hole during the night. We tend to sit up quite late watching the water hole, and then get up several times in the night to see what is there. Then there is The Ark where we saw five rhinos around the waterhole on one evening.