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After leaving home on Christmas morning, I landed at Kilimanjaro airport at 8:45pm on Dec. 26th, 2005. By the time I got thru customs and got my entry visa it was about 9:30pm. Our trip leader picked me up at the airport (along with another person in our group that was on the same flight from Amsterdam). We were the last ones to get in and when we got back to the hotel everyone else was in bed. So, I did the only thing I could do - went downstairs to the bar and ordered a beer. Ended up having a couple brews with 2 dudes from New Zealand and a British guy. They had just gotten down from the mountain that day and had some good stories to tell. Finally went to bed around midnight. Have to get up at 6:00am.
This pack was with me day and night for two weeks. It’s not nearly as clean now.
The view of the mountain from the hotel (the morning we started hiking). It seems far away now, but it seemed even farther away the closer we got.
Tags: Amsterdam, Beer, Kilimanjaro, New Zealand, The Climb, Travel
