Have you been somewhere amazing this year? Readers are sharing their latest travel adventures, snapping photos of themselves biking in Oregon, visiting Northern California waterfalls, and more. Now they’re offering advice on what to see, where to go and how to plan.
Today, we’re hearing from a reader who just returned from the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro.
I wish you were here
TANZANIA: San Jose resident Navneet Parmar and a group of friends — pictured from left, Seattle residents Saumil Gandhi and Sandeep K, Abhishek Parmar and Navneet Parmar of Palo Alto — have just returned from a hiking trip to Mount Uhuru on Kilimanjaro, elevation 19,341 feet.
“It was an eight-day journey,” says Navneet. “Six and a half days to reach the summit and one and a half to descend. The walk passes through five different vegetation zones, ranging from cultivated land, rainforest, grassland and alpine desert to the summit, which was once a glacier and still has walls of snow.
“It was definitely a trip of a lifetime and having a chance to do it with friends and crew from Tanzania made it all worthwhile.”
TRAVEL TIPS: “My advice to people thinking of doing Chili would be to build resilience and pack layers of good quality clothes,” says Navneet. “As they say in Chile, everything comes true if you do it ‘pole, pole’ which means ‘slow, slow’!”
Join the fun too. Send a photo of yourself on your latest adventures – local, domestic or international – to jburrell@bayareanewsgroup.com. Tell us where you are, who everyone is and where they’re from, and share a travel tip or two to help other readers do that awesome thing too.
