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9 Aug, 4 tweets, 3 min read
DAY 7 - THE DESCENT

Uhuru Peak - Base Camp (5 km)

High Camp - Mweka Hut Camp - Mweka Gate [18 km]

Going up took 6 days. Coming down - 1 day. ImageImageImageImage
It was everything and more 🤸‍♀️ ImageImage
We did the last 2 km in an ambulance 🚑

2 of our teammates couldn’t walk anymore. They just couldn’t walk! (I’m still laughing at them till now😂)
Their legs just wouldn’t work 😂

So the ambulance was called and we all hopped in.

[The fee you pay includes Rescue] ImageImageImageImage
Going up = ~70 km
6 days.
It takes long because you have to stop and acclimatise. Altitude can be deadly.
Some routes are shorter/longer. It’s a choice.

Coming down = ~23 km
A few hours.
We walked the 5 km down on the same day we summits. Then did 18 km the next morning.

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MOUNT KILIMANJARO

Costs and hiking information. Image
COSTS

*Climb: R38000 (USD $2600)
Flights: ~R8000 (Cape Town)
Covid Tests: R4000 (R850 + $25 + $180)
Minimum Recommended Tips: $350 (R5400)
Common Extras: Toilet USD $175 (R2600)
Hiking Gear: ~R10000

*Climbing costs differ based on routes, duration, company etc ImageImage
The costs I shared are for the route I used.

Lemosho Route - 9 day package.
Day 1: Hotel.
Day 2-8: On the Mountain.
Day 9: Hotel.
(Detailed in picture)

There are different routes and different durations.
On average, climb cost is about USD $2000 Image
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Tanzanian Travels 🇹🇿

A summary of flights, accommodation and things-to-do in Arusha, Safari.

I can’t respond to all DMs so I will just thread it here.

PS: I don’t know everything, I just know what I know 😅
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Cape Town - Kilimanjaro (JRO) = ~R7000 return.

It cost us more because we had to shift our flights from Joburg to Cape Town and to 10 days earlier so we could be out of SA when the President announced the readjusted Covid regulations.

Needed to escape the lockdown🙈
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R850 for PCR and must be presented at destination within 72 hours.

And when you arrive in Tanzania, you have to take a mandatory rapid test for US$25. The process is painfully long. It took up to 2 hours.

TZ went from 0 to 2 -ve Covid certificates 🥴
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The Bible story of Samson is making my evangelism difficult 😂

I'm failing to explain how exactly Samson caught 300 foxes, and tied their tails together and set them on fire 🤭
They didn't run away? 😳

And where he got a donkey jawbone and how he killed 1000 Philistines with it
Like, were these 1000 men waiting in a queue? Because I mean 1000:1 🙈

How do I explain why he told Delilah the truth after she had made it very clear that she wanted him dead😅

And how the Philistines didn't cut his hair after it started regrowing! Were they that stupid?😅
And how after that donkey bone mass murder, he went and hired a prostitute and had a raunchy night to celebrate 🤣

He was so ungovernable 💀
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30 Dec 20
LAST small thread 🤥 🤥 🤥

I found this particularly interesting. Mostly because many people who acknowledge their ancestors have been accused of being evil and of being anti-God.

The Ndebele Religion:

God (uMlimu)
Living Dead (Good)
The Living
Living Dead (Bad)
God (uMlimu)

The Supreme being. Sovereign over all. UNkulunkulu. UMvelingqangi. UThixo. The Highest Being.
You know - GOD.

So the Ndebeles worship God.
The Living Dead (Good)

Ancestors. Amadlozi. Abaphansi. Abadala.

They were not worshiped, just revered.

The good ones are the ones ababebuyiswa (Mbuyiso) and kuthethelwa kibo.

Many people honour their ancestors eg, by acknowledging clan names and totems.
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30 Dec 20
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE RISE OF THE NDEBELE KINGDOM 👑

A thread...

SOURCE: Old Bulawayo Cultural Site
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His name means 'uMzila wegazi' 👇
1820:
After a raid, Mzilikazi didn't surrender the cattle to King Tshaka as he should have.

Tshaka's izimpohlo & Mbelembele regiments engaged Mzilikazi's iMpi and Mzilikazi fled.

~500 people left with him. ~300 were women because 'women birth nations'. They go forth & multiply
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Stop 1: OLD BULAWAYO

I'm doing a "Heritage Tour" this week. I'll be visiting historical sites around Plumtree and Bulawayo to learn more about our history.

Today, I spent hours with Mr Mthonzima, the custodian of OLD BULAWAYO - the original home of King Lobengula.
Old Bulawayo, or more correctly, Ko Bulawayo is a historical site situated less than 20 km from the city of Bulawayo.

Old Bulawayo was established by King Lobengula as his capital in 1870 after the death of his father King Mzilikazi in 1868.
11 years later, King Lobengula resettled to present day Bulawayo - where there's the State House in Sauerstown.

The old capital (Present day Old Bulawayo) was burnt to the ground.

I'll detail everything on separate threads 😁
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