After travelling in Africa for over a month, climbing Kilimanjaro, and going on Safari, my pocketbook and I needed to recover. Cue Northern Thailand! Having previously visited Thailand’s famous southern beach destinations like Koh Phi Phi, and Phuket, quite a few times in the past; this time I was going to spend a few weeks […]
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Arusha is a major African business and diplomatic hub that hosts international bodies like the Africa Court, and the African Union. In addition to being a major capital for commerce and diplomacy, Arusha’s location at the edge of the Rift Valley, also makes it Tanzania’s launch-point for safaris into Tanzania’s famous destinations for wildlife viewing
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Tanzania is likely most famous for two things: one is being home of Mount Kilimanjaro – highest mountain on the African continent; and the other is being home to incredible National Parks and Reserves such as Serengeti National Park, and the Ngorongoro Crater, where the Great Migration can be viewed annually. This post will talk
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Today we will be completing the Machame Route on Kilimanjaro. Our walk today will bring us from 3100m at Mweka Camp to the trail end at 1800m at Mweka Gate. We woke for breakfast at the leisurely hour of 7am today. With no mountain to summit, we had the luxury of time this last day
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Day 5: Today we will summit Kilimanjaro. I woke a little before 11pm, to the sounds of other trekking groups starting to get ready for the summit. Barafu base camp was quietly awakening with nervous energy. The wind howled outside, and it felt like the whole tent was going to be ripped right off the
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Day 4 of my journey on the Machame Route on Kilimanjaro takes me from Barranco camp at 3900 meters, to Barafu base camp at 4700 meters (via Karanga camp). Barafu camp is the final camp before climbers make their final trek to the summit of Kilimanjaro. Aside from summit night, day 4 was the most
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Day 3 is an acclimation-building day on Kilimanjaro as we ascend 800M from Shira Camp to the Lava Tower at 4600M, but then descend back down to 3950M at Barranco camp. Following the principle of climb high, sleep low. The day starts at 6am, with our wash basins being delivered to our tent, packing and
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Day 2 of my journey on Kilimanjaro’s Machame Route takes to Shira Camp situated at 3800M above sea-level. The hike is a very short one today: just 5km, however we ascend nearly 800 meters in this short hike from 3050m at Machame Camp to 3800m at Shira Camp. My alarm went off at 6:30am, and
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Day 1 of my 6 day trek on the Kilimanjaro Machame route with Zara Tours commenced at Machame Gate – situated about 30KM from Moshi. The 11KM trek today gained about 1200m of elevation – from Machame gate which sits at 1640m to Machame camp which sits at 2840m. The slow-as-molasses “pole-pole” pace set by
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Climbing Kilimanjaro has been on my bucket list for a while. Kilimanjaro is one of the World’s Seven Summits, and is the highest free-standing mountain in the world. As the highest mountain on the continent of Africa – it is also known as the “Ceiling of Africa.” As summiting Kilimanjaro does not require any technical
