Our itinerary

Hi everyone,

I've been reading my Kilimanjaro guide book and apparently we should be able to get phone signal near the summit of Kili! How bizzare! Africa has better reception than my lounge room in Bendigo.
So where are we going and what are we doing? This has been a very long process, with flights being booked in the middle of the year and constant googling and asking for advice.

We're flying into Nairobi and staying 4 nights, where we will be spending a couple of days in Kibera, a slum that covers an area of 256 hectares. We will be working with the wonderful people from Women for Women in Africa. I don't think we can properly prepare ourselves for this part of the trip, and I'm already curious as to what I'm going to write about our time here.
Once we leave Nairobi, we are going to Arusha, where we will spend a night before climing Mt. Kilimanjaro. Only 19,000ish feet or so, won't be too hard! This is where we will spend Christmas and Boxing Day, doing the Kili Shuffle up the mountain. A different Christmas, that's for sure!
Once we decend, we will spend another night recovering before taking off on safari with Safari's-R-Us, a company affiliated with St. Jude's, a school in Arusha. We will spend 5 days in a number of national parks and hopefully will find a baby elephant for me! (I promise I won't bring one home.. maybe!)
After our safari we will spend two days at St. Jude's, a school an Australian girl built, which provides education to 1500 students from the poorest of backgrounds.
And finally, we will spend 6 days lazing on the beaches of Zanzibar before returning to Nairobi to fly back home.

So that's our trip! We leave in two sleeps and we are so excited! Time to start taking the malaria tablets and pack our bags!

Rach xxx