Celebrations



That night we had a celebratory dinner at the Indo-Italian Restaurant close to our hotel with a few Serengeti beers and some Indian food. Sandy and Sharat thanked the support team on behalf of all of us, Paul and Adidas too addressed the group. Finally Paul handed over our eagerly awaited Gold certificates for having summited.

We were joined by Daniel here. When we had camped at Karanga, Daniel had proceeded to Barafu, continued to Uhuru peak, descended to Barafu and went on to Mweka camp and then Mweka gate, all without camping at any of the points - having arrived at the gate much before expected and finding that there was no car waiting for him he had proceeeded to walk out of the natl. park all the way to the roads and hitched a ride back to Moshi - so he had got from Karanga to his hotel in Moshi in one stretch!


Subsequently, we returned to the Hotel to offer tips to the support team - I think we contributed $35 to the guide/asstt. guide and $25 to each of the porters and cooks. Sandy had brought some Tantra T-shirts as gifts for the guides and porters. We also gave $10 extra to the guides and one of the porters that had helped Aradhana on the way down the scree.

Once the ceremonies were over, we walked over to the comfort of our rooms having completed a most amazing adventure and looking forward to our African Safari.