Mt Kilimanjaro Day 3

Day 3 is a rest or more correctly an acclimatization day. We still did a five hour trek today, so it wasn’t very restful! Had a late wake up of 7 am!

Lots of those strange trees around camp.

We hiked up what they call the Upper Route towards Mawenzi.

These are the Zebra Rocks.

The natural colouring of the rocks is quite fascinating.

We decided to carry on up towards the ridgeline.

And got up to around 4,300 metres after three and a half hours. We’d been told the whole up and down would take three hours so were slightly grumpy.

Not as many of these here as in Nepal, but still a fair few Buddhists have been through.

A view down from the ridgeline. It started to cloud in going down, and then it rained. Luckily you always have the wet weather gear in the day pack, so a quick change for the final part of the descent back to Horombo.

Doing an acclimatization day was a very good idea. There seemed to be a lot more altitude sickness with groups that didn’t do it.

The weather stayed overcast, rainy and cold for the rest of the day. We had an early 6 pm dinner and then went to bed around 7 pm, as the two hardest days were to follow.