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\"Mt.<\/a>

Mt. Kilimanjaro, at 19,341 feet, was covered with clouds most of the time. You can just see the top of Kili above the cloud bank in this photo if you look carefully<\/p><\/div>\n

After five pleasant days on Zanzibar, it was safari time, and we caught a flight from Zanzibar Town to Arusha in northern Tanzania.\u00a0 Arusha is the elephant (what, you preferred “lion”???) of the safari industry with over 500 safari companies and 5 major national parks or conservation areas (including Serengeti) within a 4 hour radius.\u00a0 If that’s not enough for one town, it is also the launch point for climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, which lies 100 km to the east.<\/p>\n

\"Our<\/a>

Our single-engine single-pilot plane on Arusha’s single landing strip<\/p><\/div>\n

We boarded a 12 seat, single-engine Cessna 22 at Zanzibar airport an hour after its scheduled departure time and took off for Arusha.\u00a0 Our group accounted for 7 of the 11 passengers.\u00a0 The other 4 were a family that looked to be from the US as well.\u00a0 We exchanged a few pleasantries, and, yes, the family was from the US, specifically Philadelphia.\u00a0 A few more questions determined that the wife, Amy (perched in the Cessna’s co-pilot’s seat since one engine only needs one pilot) had worked as an intern for our safari-mate, Joe V., at the American Friends Service Committee some 30 years<\/p>\n

\"Every<\/a>

Every seat counts on a Cessna 22. Here Amy flies co-pilot.<\/p><\/div>\n

ago.\u00a0 All kinds of crazy cross-connections began to pop up.\u00a0 Africa suddenly seemed local and familiar.<\/p>\n

We landed on the sole runway of Arusha airport a couple hours later and found our two guides waiting for us.\u00a0 They introduced themselves as Chagamba and Mika, loaded our bags into 2 Land Rovers, and we headed for Mt. Meru and Arusha National Park where our safari would begin.<\/p>\n

\"On<\/a>

On way to our night’s lodging, we hit a traffic jam. A truck crash completely shut down a bridge on the main Arusha road, backing up traffic for miles.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Bystanders<\/a>

Bystanders trying to see the crash site. Mika knew a dirt-road workaround, but that too was backed up and we waited for over an hour to get through.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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