After two weeks of ‘roughing’ in tents and dusty Landrovers we were ready for a holiday!  Zanzibar is an Island off the coast of Tanzania, set in the Indian Ocean and famed for its beaches.  An ideal place for some R&R before heading back to work.  The day after getting back from Safari, after Phil [...]

The trip had been all about Kilimanjaro and that’s pretty much all we thought about until we got back from the trek, but we had booked a weeks Safari through the Ngorongoro, Serengeti, and Lake Manyara national parks too. All we knew was there would be no more walking as we would get driven round [...]

I’m back in the land of the Internet!  I want to record our trek up Mount Kilimanjaro for future reference and as a memento of our hard work – so here goes!
Arrival in Tanzania – August 19th 2009
We set foot on Tanzanian soil at Kilimanjaro airport (Kili is the only mountain in the world with [...]

On the 25th of August I made it to the Kibo sumit of Mount Kilimanjaro – the hardest thing I have ever done!  We began our final ascent to the summit at 5895m at midnight from the Barafu camp at 4600m.  As we got higher the wind chill increased, making me appreciate the six layers [...]