Saturday, Day -1.
The Keys Annex Hotel, Moshi, Tanzania, 845m (2,770ft) and the lowest altitude we’ll be at for the next week or so, even lower than the top of Carrauntoohil. We arrived into Kilimanjaro International Airport last night where we were relieved of US$100 for our entry visa. If we’d been British or any other member of the Commonwealth, we’d have been half the price. Confounded Empire …
Woke early this morning and went down for breakfast, looked out through the palms and saw this beautiful, slightly terrifying sight rearing up before us. Damn! It looks big and far away. Have we really let ourselves in for something that we’re not able for?
Today is a day for R&R so hopefully we can steady the nerves with some of the local brew, fittingly named Kilimanjaro Premium Lager. Later in the day we’ll see people wearing T-shirts with the legend “If you can’t climb it, drink it”.
Hmm.
Downtown Moshi is a blast, an assault on the senses. All of them. Some go to the market and learn to haggle, some go to sup on their last latté, some go to the Indo-Italian Restaurant (very good apart from the slow service) which is an interesting experience because if the Indian chef is off, then it’s only an Italian restaurant and vice versa.
One wonders what it becomes when both of them are off.
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