Kilimanjaro Kempinski Dar es Salaam

... to Hans Meyer Cave Point (5182m). From here the gradient steepens for another five to six hours to Gilman's Point (5680m). Your reward in reaching Gilman's Point is a panorama of incredible landscapes. From here your view extends into the snow-filled crater, across the spectacular steeped cliffs of the eastern icefields, back down to The Saddle and Mawenzi and along the edge of the crater rim to Uhuru Peak.

As we push ahead to the final summit ...

... are tensions between the two countries and according to the guy I was talking to they were all "thieves and cheats". When the country became communist people who were doing well were arrested as having "stolen" from the people and all their assets were seized and redistributed to the people. Of course eventually some people within government wanted to have more but were affraid to draw attention and get thrown in prison. So what they did was form discreet partnerships with Indians ...

... to somewhere near Lusaka. We are stocking up on beer and Haribo...

Fact of the day....

Did you know that platform 9 and 3 quaters in Harry pottor is actually named so because it is the roughly the spot where boadicea had her last battle and was where she fell to the ground when she was killed

... dala a little ways out of the city center and visited a museum that had models of all the different tribal houses. It was pretty interesting. I got to see the traditional Chagga house, which is the tribe near Kilimanjaro, where I had stayed. We ran into a guy that Esther had gone to school with who is now and artist and he showed us his paintings, which were really beautiful. We then went to a traiditional crafts market and saw all the local handicrafts. Esther tried to buy a belt ...

... large swimming pool we were in heaven. We were into the pool as fast we could possibly be expecting a nice refreshing dip to cool us off. One problem though - the pool mustve been about 30 degrees. We were working up a sweat swimming in the pool. Not so refreshing after all but better then being outside the water. We spent the afternoon having a few ice cold cocktails poolside soaking up the sun. This is the life...

... celebrations at the church. They taught me the dance which I obviously enjoyed so much! We went over and over the dance and it was really good. I went back to the convent with John, we were going to do some washing which I was looking forward to but the nuns had already washed some of my clothes! John and I talked for a bit - he was telling me about his life, which it was sad because he hasn't got a parent but a relative pays for him to go to school; but ...

... driving at night without headlights. 6. Africa does not need any more retailers. Every family in East Africa, both rural and urban, seems to have opened a shop. Most of these shops are poorly stocked and carry a small variety of odds and ends: a three-pack of bar soap, some hard candies, a pack of screws, and a cell phone case. The basic microeconomic rules don't seem to apply. Even though the market is absolutely flooded with sellers, and there is ...

Weiterflug nach Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Vom Flughafen mit Taxi zum Hotel Safari Inn. Dar es Salaam ist alles andere als sehenswert. Wir ueberbruecken die Zeit bis zur Weiterfahrt mit einem Besuch des Nationalmuseums und erhalten einen Einblick in die Geschichte des Landes: dem Sklavenhandel mit Zansibar und der deutschen und britischen Kolonialzeit. Ausserdem beherbergt das Museum fossile Funde ...

... After we arrived in Dar we walked a short distance from the ferry terminal to a nearby very nice, modern shopping mall where I could sit to eat my already purchased sandwich (until I got run out of the restaurant where I was sitting for eating my own sandwich. The owner came up to me and said "If you bought a hamburger at McDonald's, you wouldn't be able to eat it at Burger King, would you?" Actually that was not a good analogy because, at least in ...