Waterfall and coffee making

Such a good day………

After a fantastic breakfast at our lodge we were driven to a small village called Maruni, it is at about 2,000 metres and is the second from last village on the way up Kilimanjaro.

The village makes organic coffee and gave us a detailed, hands on tour of the whole process, from picking and shelling the beans to pouring the coffee, with singing from start to finish. Despite my dislike of coffee I loved every stage and even tried a little taste😫. With lots of sugar it was bearable!

We then walked for an hour up the beautiful mountain to an amazing waterfall – about 75 metres high.

Despite the extreme cold I had to swim as nature was calling and unlike Rob I can’t just go behind the nearest tree.🤣

After our swim and a quick dry off and change we walked back to the village for a home cooked traditional lunch of rice, meat, savoury bananas??? And vegetables. It was slightly odd but so, so good.

Tonight we have had our pre climb briefing and organised everything ready for tomorrow’s first day of climbing.

We are both very excited but fairly apprehensive too.

We probably won’t be able to post anything now until we’re back from the climb next Monday.

Wish us luck and say a little prayer for our safe ascent and return.

Akuna matata, Asente