Keys Hotel, Dar es Salaam
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Kilimanjaro Challange
After saying good bye to our new found Gecko Friends, Jacquie and I caught the shuttle car to the bus station in Arusha where we caught the shuttle bus to Moshi (about 1 1/2 hours) where we were dropped off and picked up by someone else and delivered safely to the Keys Hotel in Moshi. This will be our base for our attempt at climbing Kilimanjaro. …
The flight
It was a very loooooooong flight. We were traveling for over 26 hours. Finally arrived in Moshi, Tanzania. We had met Angus, the gal from San Fran, in Amsterdam, so we knew she was on our flight. We met the other four people in our climbing group at the Moshi airport. We were met by Richard from the Keys Hotel, who droves us from the airport to the …
Into Tanzania
After five or six hours in the jeep, we arrived in Moshi and I finally met Bongo, my guide. Hilarious, kind Bongo - who also knows everyone and how to work the system. He was an interesting study....Settled in at the Keyes Hotel and found that due to a scheduling error, in order to go up with other people I would have to wait an extra day to climb …
Day of
Back to the good ol' Keyes Hotel. An unforseen overbooking meant that I got to sleep in a double horsehair mattress after all that tent time :) Met Aongus from London. He and his girlfriend used to live behind us in Southie!! So funny that we'd meet so far away. We rambled around Moshi together, found a great little cafe and had ice cream, talked …
Bongoyo Island
... most of the way, which helped time pass quickly.
Once back at Chlo's we went out for dinner at an Italian restaurant as her little brother had just come back from boarding school & it was his favourite. It had the biggest outdoor eating area I have ever seen!
I had a procuitto pizza, Jack also had a pizza and Chlo had a yummy seafood pasta.
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