I saw Kili!

View from hotel - The highest mountain in Africa
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After being dropped off in Korogwe Jo and I stayed at the horrible Transit Hotel for one night. Actually its not that horrible, its just incredibly noisy, especially when there's a wedding reception downstairs with seventeen bridesmaids and lots of trumpets blowing after every speech!

We spent all morning hoping and praying that the coach we'd booked would remember to pick us up but by 1230pm we were on the Scandanavian Express coach on our way to Moshi.

Fortunately we knew exactly where we were heading, as Jo's friend from home, Becky was already in Moshi and had booked us a hotel room.  We were so excited when we saw it! Most of the hotels we stay in are really rough and full of mosquitoes. Mind you, we do sometimes pay more like $5 a night rather than $25, so we were splashing out a bit!  I even got my first proper look at Kili from the hotel balcony and was even more impressed that Becky had just climbed it! Awesome - there's no way I could do that though!

Moshi is much more developed than I had realised on my first visit here.  There are some excellent internet cafes and some really nice places to eat or just get a coffee.  Becky had been living in Moshi for a while, helping at a childrens home so she knew her way round pretty well. When I saw the top she'd just had made locally, I had to have one! So she took me to the tailors, I got measured up and paid 10,000tsh (about 4 quid) for a new haulter-neck top.

There wasn't much to do in Moshi but its not a bad place to visit. A particularly good company to use if you visit Moshi and want to do any activities/ climb Kili, is EcoTours. (www.ecotourism-tz.com).  This is who Becky used and it was the manager (Philip) who got us a discount at the hotel.