Travel – Uwe Grunewald

Presentation and photo book

ugrunewald — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 14:41:04 +0000

Here comes the presentation, that will be printed as photo book @ ePubli.

Enjoy downloading and viewing Kilimanjaro2013.pdf (7 MB).

Africans don’t say goodbye

ugrunewald — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 18:12:24 +0000

Instead they say “Welcome Again”.

This is what the mountain probably wanted to say, when we flew extremely near by and had a last clear and perfect view to “him”

Mt. Kilimanjaro during sunset

Mobile cost

ugrunewald — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 10:48:16 +0000

While waiting at the Zanzibar Int’l Airport, checked through to Frankfurt it is time to see, how much money the local SIM saved us.

According to the roaming cost of 0,79€ per 50kb = 15,80€ per 1MB our blogging endeavor would have cost as little as 11.732€, whereas we payed locally 10€.

Isn’t it time, to think about data roaming?

Looking forward to see you all soon. Tonight, we’ll celebrate our 31st wedding day:-)

P.S. To be honest there is is a cost brake at 60€ per month data roaming. Don’t know what happens after the brake, it would however not been possible to report from our once-in-a-lifetime adventure. Thanks Eric from Vodacom, Moshi, Tanzania:-)

Location:Nyerere Road,Zanzibar,Tanzania

Album

ugrunewald — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 09:08:08 +0000

While strong sun shine, went to the shade and prepared a best-off selection (139) Picasa album with captions (in German).

Enjoy watching.

https://picasaweb.google.com/101972095773266645354/Kilimanjaro2013?authkey=Gv1sRgCI_kub6G5fnBHw&noredirect=1

Location:Tanzania

Name deserved

ugrunewald — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 07:51:31 +0000

Our hotel “Next Paradise” indeed deserves its name

Only disadvantage is, we have to share the pool with two other couples. Since we however prefer the Indic Ocean its all right now;-)

Location:Tanzania

What a luck

ugrunewald — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 08:31:19 +0000

So far, we couldn’t tell how lucky the decision was, to skip a camp and climb the peak a day earlier.

On our flight to Zanzibar, we could take a quick shot of the now snow white mountain.

Indeed it started to snow (rain in regions lower than 4500m) an hour after we returned from the peak to the base camp.

Mount Kilimanjaro from our flight to Zanzibar.

Our luggage on the last camp after a rainy/snowy night and before final descent.

Location:On our flight to Zanzibar

Off we go III

ugrunewald — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 06:07:01 +0000

At Kili Airport

Location:Tanzania

For those who like the details

ugrunewald — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 14:31:42 +0000

Here are our traces up hill:
1. Machame Gate to Machame Camp
http://www.runtastic.com/sport-sessions/100752763

2. Machame Camp to Shira Camp
http://www.runtastic.com/sport-sessions/101543671

3. Shira Camp to Barranco Camp
http://www.runtastic.com/sport-sessions/101544459

4. Barranco Camp to Barafu Camp
http://www.runtastic.com/sport-sessions/101544577

5. Barafu Camp to Uhuru Peak
http://www.runtastic.com/sport-sessions/101544657

Mt. Mavenzi at sunrise, while climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro

Location:Tanzania

No Relax but Africa

ugrunewald — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:55:22 +0000

As Sylvia assumed, we did not use our extra day for relaxation but visited a Maasai village. Good that we did it while having the opportunity.

A Maasai warrior explained us everything

Location:Tanzania

With little pride

ugrunewald — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 05:35:17 +0000

Location:Tanzania