Kili
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I am still alive but thanks to TANESCO, the tanzanian power company, I have been without internet access for the past couple of days. The power has been off for most of the past two days and we were away in the mountains before that...and they were beautiful! We stayed in a place called Marangu on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa and the largest free standing mountain in the world. We spent three days lounging, eating, and enjoying the lush greenness around the mountain. Peter and Sharon (friends from Luther) and I took a day hike up Kili which was crazy hard! I'm still sore from it. We walked to the first hut on the mountain which is at the tree line when the rainforest changes to desert essentially. It is a third of the way up the mountain so we hiked a good 5 hours total. It was amazing though to look down at Tanzania and up to the peaks ahead of us. Peter and I decided that someday when we're rich and have more time we'll come back and go to the peak. The hike was also fun because we met some nice folks at the first hut. They were on their way down so we chatted for a bit while we all rested. One guy named Luke was actually born in Iowa and graduated from Catholic University in DC. He was teaching Philosophy for a year in Zambia and got Peter excited about teaching for a year after graduating. We also met two Brits who are supposedly local celebrities that were on their honeymoon. The woman is a news anchor in London and the husband has been in some British soap operas. For their honeymoon, they are climbing kili, going to Zanzibar, and then going to Seychelles. I thought it sounded like a great honeymoon! You'd get to see your spouse at their worst (throwing up from altitude sickness at the top of Kili), and at their best (in a swim "costume" on the beach). We had a great time at Marangu enjoying the great weather and great view. It's fun being in the north of Tanzania because everytime we look outside we see Mt. Meru or Mt. Kilimanjaro...a little change from the plains of SoDak...
I am still alive but thanks to TANESCO, the tanzanian power company, I have been without internet access for the past couple of days. The power has been off for most of the past two days and we were away in the mountains before that...and they were beautiful! We stayed in a place called Marangu on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa and the largest free standing mountain in the world. We spent three days lounging, eating, and enjoying the lush greenness around the mountain. Peter and Sharon (friends from Luther) and I took a day hike up Kili which was crazy hard! I'm still sore from it. We walked to the first hut on the mountain which is at the tree line when the rainforest changes to desert essentially. It is a third of the way up the mountain so we hiked a good 5 hours total. It was amazing though to look down at Tanzania and up to the peaks ahead of us. Peter and I decided that someday when we're rich and have more time we'll come back and go to the peak. The hike was also fun because we met some nice folks at the first hut. They were on their way down so we chatted for a bit while we all rested. One guy named Luke was actually born in Iowa and graduated from Catholic University in DC. He was teaching Philosophy for a year in Zambia and got Peter excited about teaching for a year after graduating. We also met two Brits who are supposedly local celebrities that were on their honeymoon. The woman is a news anchor in London and the husband has been in some British soap operas. For their honeymoon, they are climbing kili, going to Zanzibar, and then going to Seychelles. I thought it sounded like a great honeymoon! You'd get to see your spouse at their worst (throwing up from altitude sickness at the top of Kili), and at their best (in a swim "costume" on the beach). We had a great time at Marangu enjoying the great weather and great view. It's fun being in the north of Tanzania because everytime we look outside we see Mt. Meru or Mt. Kilimanjaro...a little change from the plains of SoDak...
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