Thursday, December 24, 2009
stuck in qatar airport for 5 hours
well finally left tanzania..
first stop was dar es sallam airport.. 5 hours layover. the plane from kilimanjaro to dar es sallam was tiny.. and only 10 of us there.
i felt like an alien in the airport. everyone stared..
now waiting for another flight to beijing..spent xmas day in the flight . fun...
first stop was dar es sallam airport.. 5 hours layover. the plane from kilimanjaro to dar es sallam was tiny.. and only 10 of us there.
i felt like an alien in the airport. everyone stared..
now waiting for another flight to beijing..spent xmas day in the flight . fun...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
quick recap
so . we both made it .
we got to barafu camp which is 15.000 feet up . the highest camp we've been so far. From that point, the view of kili is very close. We got to camp pretty early arond 12 pm and just chill. getting ready for summit night.
At 11 pm, woke up and got ready. put all our layer on ( which made us look like a michelin dude ), drank some tea and cookies ( i wish we had more food )
on the mountain we just saw lots of headlight. it's a very surreal feeling.
we got lucky with the weather. the wind died down around 10 pm, left us just had to deal with the cold.
started hiking, with slow pace, The air is harder to breath , I think it's combination of cold air and altitude. My nose already decided not to let me breath thru couple days earlier,
it's a bit tricky to move around in the line AND in the dark, we made it up kinda in the head of the line which allow us not to get stuck behind people.
it took 7 hours to get to the summit. it was very steep .. 4000 feet up in 2, 3 miles if i'm not mistaken. me and carman just moved very very slowy, trying not to be out of breath. we got to stella point just right when the sun started rising. very very very pretty and amazing view of the glacier.
but there's still 1 more hour to go to the actual higest point ( uhuru peak )
got there at 7 am . Took some photo with big smile in our face. and the we got rushed down ..
going down was hell ... can't count how many times we stumble and fall.. i was super super super hungry .....
all in all ... it was great experience.... great times.
we got to barafu camp which is 15.000 feet up . the highest camp we've been so far. From that point, the view of kili is very close. We got to camp pretty early arond 12 pm and just chill. getting ready for summit night.
At 11 pm, woke up and got ready. put all our layer on ( which made us look like a michelin dude ), drank some tea and cookies ( i wish we had more food )
on the mountain we just saw lots of headlight. it's a very surreal feeling.
we got lucky with the weather. the wind died down around 10 pm, left us just had to deal with the cold.
started hiking, with slow pace, The air is harder to breath , I think it's combination of cold air and altitude. My nose already decided not to let me breath thru couple days earlier,
it's a bit tricky to move around in the line AND in the dark, we made it up kinda in the head of the line which allow us not to get stuck behind people.
it took 7 hours to get to the summit. it was very steep .. 4000 feet up in 2, 3 miles if i'm not mistaken. me and carman just moved very very slowy, trying not to be out of breath. we got to stella point just right when the sun started rising. very very very pretty and amazing view of the glacier.
but there's still 1 more hour to go to the actual higest point ( uhuru peak )
got there at 7 am . Took some photo with big smile in our face. and the we got rushed down ..
going down was hell ... can't count how many times we stumble and fall.. i was super super super hungry .....
all in all ... it was great experience.... great times.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
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At karanga camp. Moving to barafu camp tommorow and start going for summit tommorow night. All is well. Wish us luck.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
day 2 - moshi
met up with our guides yesterday , nicholas. And did our gear check . there are some stuff that's different but i think most of the part we hit it pretty good. Some stuff that are mainly different i think that we brought a lot of layers :D ( which is good ) and ended up has to bring 3 different kind of gloves ( which we happened to bring also ) and less socks . LOL .. be ready for stinkiness...
it was quite an experience to do gear check and all .
The bird were very eager to woke me up this morning so i ended up waking up pretty early again . It turned out a great idea. we managed to see kilimanjaro for the time , somehow the clouds cleared up . THAT was my first 'holy shit , it's huge ' moment.
it IS huge.. and i think i got some good video of it. I was gonna post some pics.. but they didn't allowed usb here.... lame....
today gonna do lunch at the town with our guide and go for some forest walk . seeing some colombus monkey ..
might be the last day we can use internet.. gonna start the hike early tommorow
weeeeeeee... exciting
it was quite an experience to do gear check and all .
The bird were very eager to woke me up this morning so i ended up waking up pretty early again . It turned out a great idea. we managed to see kilimanjaro for the time , somehow the clouds cleared up . THAT was my first 'holy shit , it's huge ' moment.
it IS huge.. and i think i got some good video of it. I was gonna post some pics.. but they didn't allowed usb here.... lame....
today gonna do lunch at the town with our guide and go for some forest walk . seeing some colombus monkey ..
might be the last day we can use internet.. gonna start the hike early tommorow
weeeeeeee... exciting
Saturday, December 12, 2009
day 1 in Africa
So after a long long flight , me and carman got to moshi , the little town where we gonna be for the next 2 days before our climb.
we landed around 9 pm at dec 12th, meet our driver from the hotel . Gathered around in one corner, waiting for the rest of the group that apparently stayed in same hotel too. we got our bag just fine. unfortunatelly one of the guy lost his bag along the way .
it was nice meeting up with other traveller who are suprisingly a lot of female. Most of them are going to climb also, some using different route , some the same.
the morning was beautiful , the birds outside decided i should wake up early , they sing so Loud ( which i don't mind ). carman still sleeping now, she got a hard time with mosquitos i think .
Not sure what we're gonna do today . maybe visit masai villages..
"jambo" from moshi
we landed around 9 pm at dec 12th, meet our driver from the hotel . Gathered around in one corner, waiting for the rest of the group that apparently stayed in same hotel too. we got our bag just fine. unfortunatelly one of the guy lost his bag along the way .
it was nice meeting up with other traveller who are suprisingly a lot of female. Most of them are going to climb also, some using different route , some the same.
the morning was beautiful , the birds outside decided i should wake up early , they sing so Loud ( which i don't mind ). carman still sleeping now, she got a hard time with mosquitos i think .
Not sure what we're gonna do today . maybe visit masai villages..
"jambo" from moshi
Friday, December 11, 2009
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Test Pack
Test Pack success!40lb luggage.. NOW i can only hope i won't lose my bag in the plane..
please please pleaaaasseeee :)
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