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There has been a slight breakdown in signal yesterday and today so I think we are back to blagging again. Yesterday Neil ran out of battery on his phone but managed to recharge it with his super duper power monkey  – his new solar charger gadget.  The idea is that he attaches the mini solar […]

A.M. After waking at 6.45 a.m. and getting organised we are about to start our second day of walking today which we believe is the longest but not the most strenuous day of trekking.  We are told we have about 7 or 8 hours of trekking probably on similar terrain to yesterday, which will be, […]

We left the hotel early and arrived at our start point in good spirits at 9.30 a.m. to begin our adventure.  Lunch consisted of a hotel packed lunch, which contained a nutritional breaded roll, 6 quartered pieces of carrot, a really disgusting small bag of….I suppose they were crisps, the tiniest banana in the world […]

As a little aside I have added a weather forecast for Mount Kilimanjaro for all you bloggers to get an idea of the temperatures our intrepid travellers will be enduring! 6 Day Weather Forecast for Mount Kilimanjaro at 19341 ft altitude, issued (local time): 1 pm 08 Mar 2011 Days 0-3 Mount Kilimanjaro Weather Summary: Mostly dry. Temperatures […]

Well, fortunately Neil has now managed to get a signal and keep us all updated.  Because of the initial techno hiccup there are a few repetitions/overlaps  from the blog written yesterday. So here goes…….. On the whole the flights over were as expected.  The night flight to Nairobi wasn’t bad at all and we all […]

The start of the Kilimanjaro challenge has come around very quickly and the intrepid travellers have arrived safely ‘in country’. However, the blog system planned has unfortunately not gone quite to plan as the guys do not seem to have any reception to send e-mails, so, on Neil’s behalf I am blagging the blog for […]