6128-6128 Travel Guide

Treetops Lodge, in Aberdare National Park, Kenya, is a game-viewing hotel built in 1932, suspended among living trees and shaped like an ocean liner, overlooking a waterhole and salt lick. In 1952, while staying here overnight, Britain's Princess Elizabeth learned of her father's death and ascended to the throne - giving rise to the famous saying that she went up the tree a princess and came down a queen, which made the lodge famous.