Kilimanjaro

It is often hidden in the clouds, but we were fortunate enough to have a few glimpses of its, now less snowy, cap during our stay in Moshi.

We were hoping to do more than admire it from the bottom and take a few days to actually climb it, but it wasn’t to be.

As we expected, access to the mountain is tightly controlled: all climbers have to have a guide and pay an entrance fee to the park. However, we found out that the total cost of such an exercise, for the 5 or 6 day trip would be around USD 2000 per person - far more than our budget would allow.

Our main mountain goal remains the “Mountains of the Moon”: that is, the Ruwenzoris, in Uganda. Probably around mid April 2009, for any of you keen to join…?