 On the 4th day, we took the orange line in the picture. That morning, we left Barranco Camp for Karanga Camp (3995m) for lunch after Breakfast Wall. |
| After Breakfast Wall, we climbed up and went down, up and down, and up and down... So it was a bit hard but I completely forgot that |
I was tired because of a great scenery; African alpine desert area.   Japanese snacks I brought "Onigiri Senbei" was very very popular among everyone!! |
The bags were filled with air because of high altitude looking like balloons. ---------- The Weather of Mt. Kilimanjaro --------- |
The sky was very clear in the morning, but suddenly we got caught by misty rain and high winds.  |
| I was very interested in Kilimanjaro weather. Morning = very fine. Afternoon
= wet. Evening = Strong rain. Night = Starry sky... It was like this every day. The guides said, |
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"From the end of December to Feburary, we always have a dry season and hardly have rain, but the weather has been crazy recently! So the sky is changing all day long as we have global warming..." |
| ---------- Karanga Camp （3995ｍ） --------- We managed to make it to Karanga Camp under the bad weather.  |
Lunch time!! Deep fried chiken and french fries. I like everything but the salad and the boiled veggies for main dish??? |
| Corns and pasta again and again??? Enough already!! Like this morning, Franziska said to me again, "Hey Syuhei, I can't eat any more. |
Would you like to have my French fries?" So I took hers without any
hesitation. lol  |
---------- Barafu Camp （4673ｍ） --------- |
After the lunch, we kept going up the long uphill from Karanga Camp. About 4500m high, we went through a great alpine desert area in open secenery. |
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We were very lucky that we were again under the clear sky just then. We finished going across the open ground like in the picture below |
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and climbed up around the mountain at tha far back and made it to Barafu Camp (4673m) : the final distination for the day at about three-thirty. |
 Right before we got there the sky started to get suddenly very cloudy |
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and we had thunders, and got caught by strong rain at that moment. On top of that, the rain changed to snow and finally, we got a hard snow storm |
The weather was so awful that I couldn't take out ma camera, so I didn't have any pictures of Barafu Camp to share with you. So sorry... |
We escaped into our tents right away. But! But! But! All the snow on the rain gears started to melt in the tents, so the sleeping bag, |
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the backpack, the duffel bag, and the seat for the tent... got soaking
wet... I wanted to take lots of rest before attacking the summit |
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that night, but it was impossible! No way of doing so!! To be continued!! |