Day 24 Nairobi to Cape Town - Snake Park, Arusha, Tanzania 40km
Still exhausted from the day before we woke up at 10h00 and wandered around the Campsite finally having some breakfast before heading into Arusha to buy groceries for the cook groups from the local market. We registered our Tanzanian phone number and had a Burger at Alpha Burger which went down well with a Kilimanjaro Lager.
We returned to camp and prepared dinner which was a chicken and vegetable stir fry after which we paid our bill with "Ma" and called it a night.
Day 25 Nairobi to Cape Town - Snake Park to Marangu Hotel, Base of Kilimanjaro 120km
We were up at 0630 to start breakfast and said our goodbyes to "Ma" before slowly making our way out of Arusha and on towards Marangu Hotel at the Base of Kilimanjaro. We arrived around midday and had a bite to eat at the bar. We then met Peter, an Irishman who has lived here for the last 17 years studying the local bird & snake life and even found the Hobby Eagle, the second ever recorded sighting in continental Africa! We started the bird watching tour in the hotel garden which has 270 bird varieties alone, then made our way our of the hotel grounds and around the surrounding area meeting locals along the way and finally having a beer at "The World Trading Centre" before heading back to the hotel to get sunset shots of Kilimanjaro. We returned to our room and did some washing before watching a movie and passing out.
