We left Kowak on Wednesday afternoon and headed to outside the Western Serengeti gate, where we spent the night. Thursday we woke up, and after a yummy breakfast, met up with our driver and headed into the Serengeti. It was fun because this time we were in a Landrover with a roof that popped up, so you could stand on the seats and look out the roof while we were driving! Just like last time, we saw tons of animals- lots of zebras, giraffes, tons of elephants and wildebeests, and this time a bunch of lions! Wednesday night we camped in the park, then on Thursday continued to head East to a neighboring park called the Ngorongoro Crater. It's a smaller park, but has a spectacular backdrop (the walls of the crater) and lots more animals to see! We even got to see a few rhinos!
Today we drove to Arusha, one of the bigger cities in Tanzania, and the start point for our trek up Mt. Kilimanjaro. We leave tomorrow at 8am, drive for 2 hours to the base of the mountain, then start hiking (I think our first day as an easy 5 hr hike...at least that's what our guide said!). We got to meet with our guide today, he seems pretty chill and has climbed to the summit over 100 times, so we're pretty happy! We also have about 8 porters coming along with us to carry our bags and cook and set up the tents and basically do all the hard stuff but walk! Should be pretty easy! We're all pretty excited. Say an extra prayer for us on Thursday, that's when we should reach the summit, then head back down. We'll let you guys know how we did on Friday when we get back down!
Good luck on the climb! (I think there's a Miley Cyrus song about this...)
ReplyDeleteoh my gracious! i'm sure you'll hit your target heart rate with no problem, lol :) love y'all, be careful! and if you get stuck up there like in the movie "alive" remember, we already discussed this and kat never agreed to be eaten, hahahaha!! but seriously, i'm praying for you! xoxo
ReplyDeleteps. steph, you've gotta do this for the both of us! ;)