so the final part of our journey began - driving past Kilimanjaro from a distance peaking out above the clouds didn't exactly fill us with confidence, but did make the challenge that lay ahead a bit more realistic!! we started our walk with Bob, Soren and Claudia but as they were taking an extra day to acclimatise we left them after day 2 still it was great to meet some new faces!!













We started at Marangu Gate and walked the 4 hour walk up to Horombo, the walk was nice through a rainforest with waterfalls and stream and lots of lychen on the trees, it was pretty cool really. after a rest at Horombo we took a walk to Maundi crater, a small crater about 10mins away, that was pretty cool, got the blood pumping round again, then on the way back we saw loads of black and white collobus monkeys, they were really cute, they had really small faces with loads of hair, they were a bit like giant skunks!! the pics didnt come out to well so thats why theres not one up.

then theres just some pics of gav walking with our guides Chombo and Dao, and having lunch at one of the picnic table stops along the way. the walk takes you through the Kilimanjaro National Park up to the final peak, there are lots of other peaks on the national park but kilimanjaro is the highest. we got some fantastic views on the way up before we went above the cloud.
i have to say, i was really impressed that there were flushing toilets almost all the way up at the campsites, im sure you can imagine how gross the squat ones get!