The view about 50 feet from the front door... Mt. Kilimanjaro, everyone
Last week, everyone in my group had the pleasure of relaxing in the northern highlands at Chris’ family friend’s house. It is actually in a village in the foothills of Mt. Kilimanjaro. We met a bunch of her late husband’s family members, and hiked around by her house. Because there are always clouds around Kili, during the day you really can’t tell that the mountain is even there. However, in the morning and at sunset the clouds would lift for like half an hour, so we could see it then. It was really frustrating trying to take pictures because the haze made everything so beautiful, but you can’t really see anything in the pictures, so you’re just going to have to take my word for it.
One day we went to visit a hotel which on of our friends’ dad owns. It is very near to the entrance to Kilimanjaro National Park, which is where people start their climb. We hiked up to the entrance and actually got in and walked up to the point which you can’t cross unless you pay a large sum of money. So technically, we climbed Kili! Haha.
The rest of the days were filled with drinking tea and coffee and hiking around. We had to go fetch drinking water from a stream which was clean enough to drink without boiling. So, we actually drank natural spring water from Kilimanjaro! And yes, I’m sure it was safe to drink because we all drank it for a week and never got sick.
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