Lord Baden Powell's Grave

Nyeri is a popular destination for relaxation, business, entertainment, and educational/cultural tourism. Its pubs offer lively entertainment, the farms in and around it offer pristine scenery, and the grave of the scouting Movement's founder, Lord Baden-Powell and his paxtu cottage are popular attractions.

Nyeri is the burial place of Lord Robert Baden-Powell, a fighter in the Boer War and the founder of the Scouting movement, who once wrote "the nearer to Nyeri the nearer to bliss". He and his wife are buried in the town cemetery. Lord Baden-Powell's Paxtu cottage, now a small museum, stands on the grounds of the Outspan Hotel. Nyeri remains the home of the worldwide scouting movement with members of the scouting movement congregating in the town from time to time for various activities and functions. Lord Baden Powell's Grave
Nyeri is also the burial place of the legendary hunter/conservationist Jim Corbett, the author of Maneaters of Kumaon (1944) who also spent his final years in Kenya.