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Day 6: Enjoying Victory
... please feel free to contact me, our team was amazing and I highly recommend them to anyone out there who is thinking of climbing Kili.
Other notes:
- Bathrooms are awful...ughhh! bring your own supplies
- Food was good, but heavy, bring your own bars and other items you may prefer esp. if you have dietary concerns. Or tell your cook in advance
- Water - drink lots and lots of it! you cannot ...
Day 7 - Mweka Camp to Jason at the park gate :)
Thanks everyone for your messages of support on the travel blog, it has been great to hear from home :) Slept very very well last night, with 14 hours hiking within 24 hours under my belt, and the challenge of reaching the top behind me! Definitely did not want to get out of my cosy sleeping bag this morning. But again we were up at 7, brekky at 7.30, and walking again by 8. Another four ...
Next applicant please!
... we'll have to go to the bank twice, and hand Joel a 10 cm high stack of bills.
I've never been so happy to give money away; that big wad of cash was burning a hole in our pockets!
When that's done, we buy some veggies on the market (taking care to ask for real prices, not mzungu (European) rip-off prices!), cook some pasta in our hostel, and I take my first safari photo with my telephoto lens (a gekko on the roof!).
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Kilimanjaro
... of choice so as to avoid altitude sickness. I found the pace really reasonable and never felt short of breath though others in my group certainly became dyspneic. The landscape was almost mystical with the dense fog and mist. Enormous trees, lush ferns and the most delicate of flowers were found during the early stages of our hike. As we reached 9000ft of altitude, the height of trees greatly diminished and the appearance of the trees and shrubs significantly changed. Under ...
Kilema Caravan Day 4
... coping with chronic neck, chronic back and chronic whole body pain. Imagine carrying at least 25 to 50 lbs of stuff on your head daily for hours on end or bending over to work in the fields for hours on end with all the bending coming from the spine (legs stay straight). The work ethic and resiliency of people are remarkable. I've seen a few former porters from Kilimanjaro. You all know how I rather ...