Left our camp just north of Dar Es Salaam in the morning heading along the Great Rift Valley towards Moshi, which is the nearest city to Kilimanjaro. From about lunchtime onwards we had the camera ready in anticipation of the first sighing of the Africa’s highest mountain. It was a cloudy day so we weren't too hopeful. Then, about 100 km away just as we were coming over a hill overlooking a huge valley, Ian and Heater who were travelling behind us called on the car radio: ‘can you see the mountain’? We looked and looked and all we could see was a line of cloud on the horizon. We couldn't quite understand that we didn't see what they could. Then we lifted up the sun visors and tilted our heads up and there it was, sticking above the clouds: Awesome!
Even more amazing was the fact that Ian and Heather had
climbed Kilimanjaro five years ago and yet, this was their first proper sighting of it since it was enshrouded in cloud the whole time they were on it. A special
moment for them as well!
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