6 July 2022 Diary Entry I’m writing this while doing a time laps of the camp. Man this is awesome. I am so dirty though. All the people are amazing and I am enjoying the interactions. I have two crows/falcon things with in two meters of me. They are walking towards me as I am writing this! Really quite amazing to see, although quite scary. Scary because they are wild animals, The two that are here must be a pair....
5 July 2022 Diary Entry Today we started a bit later and the time made a big difference. I got out of bed when the sun rose. I was significantly warmer and did not start the day with longs on! WE had to get up at 7 for breakfast at 8, started hiking at 9. The hike was short but long. We had on elevation of roughly 900m which was tough....
Kikelewa Camp- 4 July 2022 Diary Entry Today was a very long 15 km hike. It was amazing views, where we had a very steep / difficult 4 hour start before lunch. We had lunch at 3450m and it was spaghetti! I had a good helping. I feel a little hot, have had to much sun today. It is only going to get worse. I am not going to strop putting on suntan lotion....
Preparation and Climb 1 - July 3 2022 Diary entry As a note: I have modified the text very little in my daily log. The log is coming directly from my journal. The start Today we started the day at our hotel, we then had breakfast and sometime after 8 we left for the Rongai Gate. After arriving at the gate we had some food ( which was a packed lunch ) and signed in....
2 July 2022 Arrival and Exploration Mt Kilimanjaro! Arrival After many hours travelling and waiting at airports for connecting flights. I am finally in Tanzania! WOW the time has come, and we are starting to walk soon (Tomorrow). After 2 years of waiting it seems this moment would not have arrived! We have a debrief session with Sean today at 7pm. Its going to be very very interesting The Day Union Cafe Today we went into Moshi, we had lunch and some coffee at a very nice coffee shop and then went cloth shopping just around the corner from where we ate and had coffee....