On Safari Day 11
Today was the last day of our Usumbara Mountain Trek. We left Mtai in the morning and made our way to a beautiful viewpoint. The view was amazing… again, I can’t put it in words but you’ll have to take my word for it. Lunch was served in a hut near this viewpoint… but it started POURING rain. John and I toughed it out and were the only 2 to actually continue hiking as opposed to getting a ride down.
About halfway down, we stopped at the hut of a traditional healer… it was kind of creepy… he had a really low raspy voice but was really young… and he was wearing like a pair of timberlands, with jeans and a puffy jacket… haha. There was a dead chicken on his roof to help one of his clients or something… yeah… it was really wicked to see but we didn’t get to see any kind of healing ritual or anything like that… and Ed, there were no shrunken heads.
The rest of the walk wasn’t that eventful… we walked back down to Lushoto where we stayed at the same hostel and I made all the entries saying that I needed to get my journal.
Oh, I almost forgot! The sun has been shining down and shining down hard… John and I both got a little burnt… however, I forgot to protect my ears and they got FRIED… and I mean FRIED. I had a blister on my ear that came out like 3cm… it was frickin’ SICK. So when we got back to the hostel, I popped it… and it made a fountain of water! John seemed pretty disgusted… haha. It was disgusting though… shudder… I took a picture of it but I’m pretty sure nobody wants to see it.
Tags: Africa
cheng.ev
December 6th, 2006 at 11:52 pm
GO get your journal girl! We are all waiting to read all about your exciting Safari adventure.
December 11th, 2006 at 12:40 am
I have to say two things, firstly to the shrunken head comment…AWWWW mannnn! there goes next year’s halloween costume. Secondly regarding your blisters, yuck that’s sick, but I do want to see the pictures!