Despite the abundance of these attractive men around, the ones that share the daladala with us are of the different kind. Fortunately, none of them are carrying any livestock this morning.
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Tanzania Blog Chapter 5 | Robbed and betrayed
I glance at the certificate and freeze. The summit date is wrong. They have missed it by a day. Siraji assures me that it happens all the time. “No matter,” he says calmly. “You don’t worry.”
Tanzania Blog Chapter 4 | On Uhuru Peak
The drive to Marangu Gate is of importance. It is a clear day too, which bodes well for our first day of climb. I look at the town scrubbed clean from the last night’s rain.
Tanzania Blog Chapter 3 | Getting ready for Mt Kilimanjaro
The drive to Materuni is all uphill. The scenery is beautiful, full of green trees, bananas, cassava, taro and many other vegetable varieties
Tanzania Blog Chapter 2 | Arriving in Moshi finally
It is past 1 p.m., local time. I breathe in Africa. It smells of Mother Earth. I press my feet to the ground and look up at an overcast sky and inhale again
Tanzania Blogs Chapter 1 | Getting ready
It is the twelfth day of December, the mention of which has no particular relevance to what goes on in my mind, but I mention it because it is odd that such a thought should, after all, pop into my mind so early in the a.m.