Mt Kili preparation

We left the Youth Hostel in Nairobi for Arusha in Tanzania for the climb up Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest free standing mountain in the world. The journey took about 6 hours due largely to the terrible condition of the Kenyan roads but it was start of 6 days of having everything planned for us so it was good not to have to worry about where we were going to stay, etc.

The hotel in Arusha was surprisingly decent for what little we’d paid for the whole trip and if you forget about the strange lack of water in the pipes and the fact that I broke the shower when trying to fill the toilet, the room was quite nice.

In the afternoon we tracked down some equipment for the climb since we hadn’t come all the prepared (I did at least have some thick socks!) and in the evening we met up with Craig who we hadn’t seen since Zanzibar.