| Actually, Tammy said to us, "You need to drink a lot of water like
it's your job on the mountain." He made me drink 3 or 4 litters of water. So I couldn't sleep at all because I had to do my business |
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every 30 minutes. Every time I came back to the tent after doing my business,
I felt the needs to go back for it again... I was up all night and 6:30 a.m came, feeling sleepy. |
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At each camp on the mountain, we got sweaty during the day, but it came down to less than the freezing point every night because we were up high. When I went outside |
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| from the tent every morning, the tent screamed, "BARI BARI BARI!!,"
awful sound... the surface on the tent outside gets frozen from the staem from inside... |
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After having breakfast and packing, we left there at 8 o'clock and headed for C2: Shira Camp (3750m) taking the pink line in the map above. |
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| 20 or 30 minutes after we left C1, the easy trail like the one from the
day 1 continued for a while, but suddenly it got much steeper on the way.。   |
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We passed the end of the forest area and looked down at other teams with the climbers from all over the world, their guides, and their portes.   |
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I felt the Kibo got closer. No! No! Too easy!! Still long way to go...  On the way, Tammy gave us a pack of fruit juice each |
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| to keep our energies up. It was so tasty that I got some as souvenirs at a super market in Moshi on the final day.  |
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After a break, we went to a view spot. Right behind, we could see Mt.Meru, the 5th highest mountain in Africa. At that time, I saw an African married couple |
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and talked with them. When we talked about Altitude sickness, they also told me that it's very very important to drink a lot of water. On top of that, drinking |
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a lot of water is much better than taking medicine. Water is the natural
medicine!! Like the 1st day, I found some alpine plants on the 2nd day too. |
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| I saw a porter of another team from the camp getting water. So we must be close to Shira camp, the today's goal!! Yay!!  |
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| -------- C2: Shira Camp (3750m) ------- A bit after 1 o'clock, we got to Shira camp. We hit the steeper path than the day before, |
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but the distance was a bit shorter so I felt it was a bit too easy!!  To be continued!! |
