Oct / 5
The Safari Guru
ChaCha was born and raised in Tanzania and works as a guide. Jose Manuel befriended him on one of his first trips to Africa and the two have grown close over the years. Jose Manuel was never one for crammed tour buses and guided safaris. For him, the adventure doesn’t start to get interesting until [...]
Oct / 5
Altitude Sickness
Taking the steepest and shortest route meant less time to acclimatize to the altitude, which meant an increased chance of getting Acute Mountain Sickness or “AMS”. I had never been climbing before and didn’t know anything about the dangers of Kilimanjaro, much less what altitude sickness really was. Many of the tour companies will tell [...]
Oct / 5
The Maasai
As soon as we pull over to eat lunch, the Maasai slowly come into focus on the horizon and head toward us with their beads and their art work, hoping for a sale. Against the earth tones and faded blue sky, emerge the bright red and purple hues that adorn the true royalty of the [...]