Comments on: Reply from AfricaTravelResource.com regarding my Kilimanjaro Climb

By: Kian Ann

Kian Ann — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 06:23:15 +0000

Cool! Thats great, thats a big difference from the quote I got. Hahas..

By: Esther

Esther — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:05:29 +0000

just wanted to say we wound up travelling with the cheapest option we found: Good Earth tours (http://www.goodearthtours.com; USD$1130 for a 6day trek including shuttle from nairobi and 4 nights in a hotel in Arusha) and Qatar Airways (SGD$1556 round trip from singapore to nairobi via doha). We highly recommend Good Earth…. Qatar was decent for the price but you MUST confirm your return flight somehow — we couldn’t get through to the nairobi office and had to fly standby on the way home. All in all a wonderful trip though! Good luck!!

By: Esther

Esther — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:34:41 +0000

We’ve been looking into climbing kilimanjaro as well…. the two companies we’re looking at are zara (http://www.zaratravel.com/) and pacwest (http://www.pacwest.com.sg/), the latter mostly because they’re based in singapore and handle flights and transport and such. good luck! this is damn expensive.

By: sharlet

sharlet — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 06:04:43 +0000

Really? That is so cool! I wonder how they knew that, did they really go and compare all of them? Haha!

Anyway, this phenomenon might help explain why the plants do this:

“The Coriolis Effect is the observed curved path of moving objects relative to the surface of the Earth.

Hurricanes are good examples. They curve to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere. What makes the hurricanes move in this way is the Coriolis force.

What happens at the equator? The Coriolis force is too weak to operate on the moving air at the equator. This means that weather phenomena such as hurricanes are not observed at the equator, although they have been observed at 5 degrees above the equator. In fact, the Coriolis force pulls hurricanes away from the equator.”

That means we will never see hurricanes in Singapore, since we are just 1 degree away from the equator. Yay!

By: Kian Ann

Kian Ann — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:57:01 +0000

No lar… just a twirly wirly plant, and I forgot what its name is already. But I remember something that the guide said – that all these plants twirl the same direction, and the direction is opposite in the northen hemisphere and the southern hemisphere!

By: sharlet

sharlet — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:29:01 +0000

Is that a photo of a termite’s nest? Sorry, correct me if I’m wrong!

You look like you’re building up to something really big, so I’m staying tuned!

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By: Kian Ann

Kian Ann — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:31:21 +0000

Cool thanks for the information! Will take a look at your photos, and looking forward to your trip entries! ;P

By: Richard Byrom

Richard Byrom — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:17:23 +0000

We planned our trip using these guys and have to say they were exceptional. Recommend the 7 day trip if you can, gives you a bit more time to acclimatise. I’ve uploaded pics to my flickr account and will shortly be writing detailed entries on the trip.