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26km of the roughest road
Date: 06/09/2006
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"Abandon hope all ye who enter here"
Date: 06/09/2006
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The view from the "bandas" the camp at the entrance to the Chogoria gate.
Date: 06/09/2006
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Fog would roll in without warning.
Date: 06/09/2006
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From the bandas it didn't look that far.
Date: 06/10/2006
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A little bird outside my tent.
Date: 06/10/2006
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Patrick, my guide, leads the way on our first day out.
Date: 06/10/2006
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That peak in the distance is called something in Swahili that simply means "sharp peak"
Date: 06/10/2006
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Patrick tells me this stream grows quite large and eventually reaches Nairobi.
Date: 06/10/2006
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The forest on the early part of the first day.
Date: 06/17/2006
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A chameleon.
Date: 06/17/2006
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This is called the "Giant's Billiard Table" it is perfectly flat on the top and covered with bright green grass.
Date: 06/10/2006
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Halfway to the roadhead.
Date: 06/10/2006
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Very strange flower.
Date: 06/17/2006
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I walked through a field of these strange grassy pillars. Patrick said they had been there for hundreds of years.
Date: 06/17/2006
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We set out on a walk to a nearby lake so I could better acclimatize.
Date: 06/10/2006
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