Our climb today was amazing and Linda, Franki and I had a blasttttt together. We took a taxi about half way up the mountain until the road was too rough to keep going (it was NOT a relaxing car ride!!! most of the time the road was either full of giant holes or on a 45 degree angle) We started our climb at about 7:30 and the first part was reeeally steep. Poor Linda only had her sandals so she was slipping a lot... not exactly an anxiety free climb :P ... We seen a few villages along the way, a lot of farms - which i thought was awesome because we didn't even think anyone lived up there - and bananas everywhere!
The view was amazing and the clouds kept rolling in and out the whole time. We could also hear the water in the rivers and waterfalls running down the mountain the whole time so despite our huffing and puffing it was a beautiful climb. The best part was Franki grew up in the mountains so he barely broke a sweat - just realized how ridiculously out of shape I am!!
When we got to Morningside it was absolutely amazing. There were beautiful flowers everywhere and even though the building was a little creepy we had breakfast and made some Chai and it was really relaxing. We could kind of hear the baboons but we would have had to climb another few hours to get to where they were and me and Linda were already dying, so we settled with hearing them :P.
On the way back down we stopped at a few spots in the river and Franki and I climbed down ( Linda has those pictures and her camera memory card doesnt fit in the computer :( ) I almost fell down a 15 ft waterfall but I caught myself on a tree lmao sorry mom!!! It was a greeeeat trip and we're potentially planning for next weekend to goo to the other side of the mountains and see a big waterfall.. the one we were going to see today was too steep of a climb to get to.
AWWWEESSSOOMMMEEE day!!
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| Our view during our climb... clouds everywhere and it was beautifulllll!! |
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| Little baby waterfall!! |
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| Bananas were everywhere we looked |
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| I have no idea what this was but we thought it was neat |
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| Franki climbing over the river to get to Morningside |
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| We made it!!! |
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| Morningside :) |
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| Majestic :P |
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| Meeee!! I climbed the mountain! |
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| Me and Franki |
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| Franki dancing on the rock :P |
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| Some of the awesome flowers we found up there |
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| Morogoro!! |
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| Some of the farms on this mountain.. It baffles my mind that people can do anything on these slopes |
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| On our way back down |
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| Some of the houses that were there |
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| I climbed down where that hole is with Franki where I was almost lost forever... much deeper and slipperier than we thought |
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| Beautiful view! |
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| Cool looking moth :P |
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| These little guys are everywhere!!! :P I love them!! Finally got a picture of one...they move too fast usually |
The view from the mountains looks incredible, but honestly, what were you thinking descending down that waterfall???!!!
ReplyDeleteYour disappearance would have sent your mother over the edge. Thanks to you, her ticks are even worse now!
well i wasnt intending on descending down the waterfall it as more to see how far down it went.... i got a little too close and the rocks were a little too slippery lmaooo
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