[slideshow] Sleep was quite irregular as several teams awoke before midnight for their summit attempt. We are lucky as we have time on our side so that we can have a full night’s sleep – or so we hope! Sian was ticked at a group of Germans that insisted on […]
[slideshow] Also see YouTube for the Kilimanjaro song sung by the porters: http://youtu.be/IEVaHd71Ja4 Happy birthday to Charmayne! Hooray, we are on our way back to Arusha, a proper bed and HOT showers! I awake excited to know that tonight I will be in a very comfortable bed at the Snow […]
[slideshow] Morning came early and shortly after 9:00am we were on our way to Arusha town and then on to Lake Manyara. First stop was a great little store where we made some souvenir purchases. John pointed out the perfect T-shirt for me that says ‘Shida Happens’ – you can […]
[slideshow] It was unanimous that today would be a rest day and I was oh so fine with that. I attempted to sleep in however was down at breakfast around 8:00am. I needed to go into town to do some banking as well as finalize some of our safari details […]
[slideshow] I awoke to the sound of the ever present ravens, they are beautiful birds but man are they noisy! And do they love the campsites!!! The ravens here look very similar to ours with the exception of a collar of white feathers. We are not rushing again today […]
[slideshow] What a glorious sleep until 4:00am. I was having weird dreams and being at 4600m yesterday was causing a bit of restless breathing. I fell back to sleep until 6:00am when the ravens made such a racket, I got up. Breakfast was a wee bit later as toady is […]
[slideshow] I awoke at midnight, and it was beautiful and clear outside with a million twinkling stars in the night sky. It was very cold and you could see frost on e ground. The balance of the night it was only a light sleep and I was […]
[slideshow] I awoke before our ‘alarm’ (our waiter Ema bringing hot water for tea or coffee). What a pleasant way to start the day! Shortly a nice bowl of hot water for washing up is brought to our tents and we are then served breakfast in the dining tent. We […]
[slideshow] I was thrilled, I slept until 6:30am without waking! My first full nights sleep since leaving home. We packed up our bags and Livingston, our guides and porters (16 in total) were waiting for us on the bus. We boarded, with greetings of Jambo and we were off. […]
[slideshow] We are pumped as we are off to Tarangire on safari. Livingston (or Ziggy as John calls him) meets us at 6:30am. We pick up our breakfast boxes, meet our driver Justin and I comment ‘just like Justin Bieber?’. This gets a lovely giggle from Justin and we load […]
