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Writing the
first half of this while waiting for our
flight to Kilimanjaro from Addis
Ababa via Nairobi. Feeling a bit sick,
think I might end up with a sore throat. The last 12 hrs hasn’t been the best.
Think I really kind of got to know TIA (this is Africa).Everything just went wrong yesterday i.e. from the time
we got to Jo'berg airport to fly out to Ethiopia. I kind of misplaced my
passport pouch(another old habit). It was in was in my laptop bag, but I just
didn’t look in the right pocket. So here we were at the airport going through
my whole baggage(1 big and a hand luggage and laptop bag) .As usual Christine
tried to calm me down she kept saying it should be here. Oh well after a few
calls back to the lodge to see if I left it back there and few minutes of
stressful search Christine found it. That was the good news and the bad news
was I had to repack :).Got through check in pretty quick. Our baggage's were
going directly to Kilimanjaro means we wont have it during our 12 hr break in
Addis Ababa. we are kind of stressed about this cause all our hiking gear is in
there and fingers crossed it will turn up when we land in Kilimanjaro.
The flight
to Addis Ababa oh gosh what can I say was a night mare. The seats were too
small and it had like a common screen for entertainment. I was in the middle
seat and Chris at the Aisle, deal was if a hot guy turns up at the window seat
Chris gets to sit in the middle and if it a pretty girl it will be me.Well it wasn’t a lucky day for
me so guess what? An old African lady turned up and Chris had a smile in a face
saying all yours buddy :). Just when we thought oh well it can only get better
from here, what can be worse than flying for 6 hrs in a very uncomfortable
flight with not the best entertainment and food?
Well the
worse was waiting for us…Addis Ababa Immigration for transit!!!
I don’t
want to go too much in detail but we had to wait about 2.5 hrs to get out….TIA
buddy TIA!!
Got to
Melkn International Hotel and guess what another long Queue to get keys to the
room..TIA!
So had
dinner first because the rooms were not ready. It was a buffet so guess what
another big queue.
I didn’t
even know what I had, was some kind of meat :) and rice. I was like what is
that taste in my mouth :D.
So after
dinner and about 15 min wait finally got our room. Had a very warm shower and
tried fixing my 32 GB SD card(the stupid thing is faulty). So ended up staying
up till about 2.30 AM.
Got up 6.30
AM cause we had a 7 Am pick up. Finished Breakfast(bread, scrabbled eggs, tea)
and jumped on the bus to the Airport. Got through immigration with no issues
this time, took us only about 15 min to get all the way in. Only irritating
thing is the scanning, had to pretty much take even my shoes off and that too
twice..ANNOYING!!!! So then its 9.15Am in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and our flight
is in a5 min. Will be flying to Kilimanjaro via Nairobi getting into Tanzania
1.50 PM local time. So that is another 4hr 50 min flying. I'm so tired of
flying just want to be on ground for more than few hrs :).
Wel will
update how the flight to killi was when I get there.
