An Africa odyssey

[JohnM]

Mt Meru, to the west of Mt Kilimanjaro. Mt Kilimanjaro is Africa’s tallest mountain at 5895m, while Mt Meru is Tanzania’s second-highest volcano at 4566m.



Coffee plantation near Arusha. This traditional shade-grown agroforestry system produces lower yield, slower ripening and enhanced flavour complexity compared with modern full-sun cultivation. The coffees of Tanzania, Kenya and Rwanda are excellent – and Ethiopia of course, the home of coffee.



The Arusha clocktower, symbolically, but not quite accurately, marking the halfway point between Cape Town and Cairo. Mt Meru looms over Arusha.



Heading east of Arusha towards JRO and Kili dominates the skyline, with the volcanic cone/crater clearly visible from this side.



Then hauling out of JRO at sunset, looking out of a dirty window.




And thus ends the Tanzanian part of our odyssey.

 

[JohnM]

Another night at the Four Points, NBO and then on the bird to Mombasa.



And to our hotel on the beach for the next night.



The tide in the afternoon was very high, inundating the beach up to the hotel’s wall, so we didn’t get a chance to walk on the beach.