Team at Shira camp

Hello everyone, sorry that some reason the post I made yesterday did not went through. Our team decided team Name as Lakpa’s three Amigos. we left Arusha yesterday morning at 8 am after 2 had half hour of drive we got to Macheme gate, where we meet our local guides and porters. We start hiking from there along with our local staffs through beautiful rain forest, it took us about 6 hours to get Macheme camp 9,900ft. It was pretty cloudy most of the day.

Sep 7th This morning we woke up with clear blue sky day. Had our first view of Kilimanjaro from our camp. We started hiking around 8am thru pretty step and rocky ridge for first three hours than after lunch we Travis to Shira Plateau to Shira camp 12,500ft. It took us 5 hours including the break.Everyone is doing good, thank you and bye for know

Lakpa

Lakpa rita

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