Sunday, February 24th

Greetings from Mount Kilimanjaro! This morning we left Nairobi and drove south to Amboseli National Park, which is in Kenya, bordering Tanzania. Our lodge, Ol Tukai, is inside an electric fence - outside the fence are elephant, zebra, hippoes, hyenas, lions, etc. AND Mount Kilimanjaro (just inside the Tanzanian border) is visible to the southwest. Tomorrow morning we'll be up and out at 6:30 to see sunrise on the mountain and to take an early morning game drive. I'm completely psyched to be here watching the elephant roam on the plains in front of the mountain - we've been lucky to have a good view because clouds obscure the summit for as much as two weeks at a time. This will be my last post before returning home. We return to Nairobi on Tuesday afternoon, and then begin the long trip home to Massachusetts. I can' wait to share photos and all of the details! -Liane