Well, it’s done. Flights booked for January 12.
BMI to Addis Ababa. Ethiopian Airlines to Kilimanjaro.
The details are pretty fixed as well. We’ll start climbing Kilimanjaro on 14 January. That will take 8 days.
After that, we’ll head for Arusha and take a look at some projects our Rotary club has been helping. One is for blind children, one is for kids who’ve had leprosy, and the third is for albino children.
www.kirkcaldyrotary.org/tanzaniavisit2010.asp
Finally, on safari. I’m not sure how I’ll take to that. I’m not keen on being a filthy rich European spending truckloads of cash to have a luxury voyeur session and snap a few shots of lions. Maybe it’s just that having been an honorary (and honoured) member of the 3rd World for 12 years, it made me a bit cynical.
The “real me” is more about heading into the steamy Rwandan jungle to sit next to a mountain gorilla.
I think. Only one way to find out.
Still to be decided? Well I’ll have 5 nights in Ethiopia at the start of the trip. I want to recover from the flight and get acclimatised before I start on Kilimanjaro. That may be too long for Addis Ababa to keep me amused, but I’ll take advice. So I could jump on an internal flight to Gonder or Lalibela for a couple of nights. Could be fun…
There’s a place called Shit’ in Ethiopia. Tempting.
© iain taylor 2011