Day 7

What goes up, must come down, so today we hiked down an additional 4600 vertical feet to the trailhead, got on a bus and am now at the hotel in Moshi. And guess what? We have water pressure so we could both take showers… well, I ran out of hot water after 5 minutes, but I was mostly done by then.

This place just can’t do it the easy way.

I’m not going to lie, I’m a little tired right now, but in a good way. This adventure isn’t over yet: tomorrow I fly 150 miles north across the Equator to Nairobi, from where I will be driven to Mt Kenya. I get a second night in a hotel and then up I go. Mt Kenya is the second highest mountain in Africa and is a considerably more technical ascent (17,057’). Climbing 5.7 at 17,000’ is no joke. The good news is that I should be well acclimatized after Kilimanjaro, so that should help. In fact, that’s the point.

I will be going alone… just me and another army of porters.

If this blog post is short, well, forgive me I’m tired and I have some packing up to do. Hopefully, I’ll have time to write tomorrow.

Cheers.