Tanzania

Country N°37 - December 2016

Day 8 – Marangu

Today we were woken up by the sun around 6:50, before getting our bags ready for the final journey to Marangu gate. After our breakfast, we exited the mess tent to find all our porters waiting outside for us. After a few songs and dance from them and a quick speech from Sam, Dad thanked […]

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Day 7 – Summit

Today we woke up at 11 pm (on the 27th) to grab our “breakfast” aka biscuits and tea. We left at 11:40 on our way to the top, we were the second group to leave the camp for that night. We started walking through the valley, zigzagging our way up to make it easier, but […]

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Day 6 – Kibo Camp

  Today we were woken up as usual by our porters at 6:30 to get ready and have our breakfast. following breakfast, we headed off towards base camp, our last stop before the summit. We left at 8:10 am on our 8km trek. About halfway there we crossed the wreckage of a passenger plane, that […]

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Day 5 – Mawenzi Tarn Camp

Today I was woken up at 4am by the rain falling on our tent, and because it was raining so heavily I wasn’t able to go outside to pee until 30 mins later, when the rain finally calmed down. we got our wakeup call at 6:30 and I got to grab a few shots of […]

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Day 4 – Kikelelwa Camp

  Today we were woken up at 6:30 by our porters with a bowl of hot water to wash ourselves. We then proceeded to breakfast at 7 in the mess tent, where we had omelette and sausages along with our tea. after breakfast, since it was Christmas we opened our gift from mom, which ended […]

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Day 3 – Simba Camp

  Today we woke up at 6am and got to see the dun rise over mount Kilimanjaro from Dad’s balcony. we then got a cold shower because we couldn’t figure out how to turn the hot water on, and then went down to grab breakfast. returning to our rooms, we put the final touches on […]

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Day 2 – Moshi

Today I woke up at 7:30, to try and Skype Jamie, which was very glitchy, but at least I had some form of internet. After skyping didn’t work, I took a nap before breakfast at 10:30. Following breakfast, we met at 12 with our CEO in the meeting room of the hotel, which looked like […]

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Day 1 – Flight to Moshi

Today after taking the Eurostar from Paris to London, I arrived back at Regents around 10pm, where I started packing and preparing for my trip, charging all the hundreds of batteries necessary for my camera, go pro, ect… After going to bed for a quick 2h nap, I woke up at 4 am to finish […]

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