Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The Climb.

So I came back from my trip on friday the 25th of May at around 4 pm. We arrived at Arusha the first day and we went to the Iboru Safari Lodge and spent a night their. We woke up earlyish. We hopped on a bus and started on our way to the foot hills of Meru. We filled our bottles with water and set off walking. It was a nice landscape and we also saw some buffalos. We reached our lunch spot at around 1:30PM we had a nice lunch. we reached our destination which is called Miriakamba Hut it was 2500M high. We played in the fresh mountain air for a while then we had a nice dinner that I think all of us devoured because we were so hungry from our 14 kg packs in our backs. We went to bed kind of early at 9PM. We woke up at 7:15AM and had a nice breakfast. We then set out to saddle hut which meant the 2000 some odd stairs and an increase of 1000m. I struggled with the altitude but I did eventually make to Saddle Hut 3500m. To top that off we had to hike to Little Meru 3820m after around an hour after we arrived to the hut. It was suposed to be a one and half hour hike but with us it took around two hours up and when we were up there a cloud came and it was like a white out so we had to leave, but before that we had an amazing view of where we came from and of kilimanjaro. It took us 20 minutes down. :). That night we went to bed at like 7:30PM so we could get up at 4AM to go to rhino point to see the sunrise over kili. Some of us actually saw the sunrise. We got there with ten minutes to spare. We all made it, however some people struggled to get to rhino point, but in the end the view of kilimanjaro was worth all the sweat and pain. We saw the summit but we weren't aloud to do it because you either have to be 16 or with a parent, we saw how technical it was and I for one was glad we didn't do it. We then proceded to descend down to saddle hut for breakfast. We then descended the rest of the trip went to the same hotel and now I am writing about it here. Pretty amazing how far it has come. Thanks for all the views.

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