The Day it All Begins For Real – by Jae

They've arrived!
Arrived Safe

GWEN’S LIVE UPDATE: I’ve heard from the team. ‘We are at the Moivaro Coffee Lodge. It’s fabulous – individual huts in amongst coffee and banana plants. Currently in the bar before dinner. Everything is packed for a 7.30am start tomorrow.’

JAE’S PRE-WRITTEN POST: So the big day is actually here. It’s today that we start climbing the biggest free-standing mountain in the world – Mount Kilimanjaro – after six months of wittering on about it!

The plan is that each day there will be a post which tells you, very briefly, what we’ve done the day before (courtesy of Exodus Travel’s trip notes). Where there is any signal at all I will try to text Litlun in Australia to tell her how we’re doing. If she recieves a text she will share its content with you in the next day’s post.

Litlun (Gwen Blake) has access to the blog and the Facebook page too – so send her a message on Facebook – www.facebook.com/3GKiliClimb if you have any useful info, or any questions.

I hope it all works while we’re away and you get daily updates.

Wish us luck, Jae (and Sheila and Oscar too) xxx