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Moshi

Moshi is the medium-size city, tucked into the shadow of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Besides outfitting Kili expeditions, it survives on the Tanzanian crop staples: banana and coffee¹. I don't have time to write details now, so I'm back to summaries again. Sooner or later, remind me to tell you about ...

• Crowding into a dalla-dalla, listening to hip-hop
• Climbing (and being chased off by rain) Mt. Meru
• The sexual frustration of 13 single men -- and effectively no women -- in tents together. (Can sheer testosterone change the weather? Mt. Meru suggests that the answer may well be "yes").
• Food poisonining at 2500 meters
• Seeing an elephant up close (from inside a vehicle, to be sure), and simians and avians and ungulates of all descriptions (not inside a vehicle).
• Watching a flamingo migration, tens of thousands of birds simultaneously leaving the same alkaline lake and heading off into the distance

Tomorrow morning we head off to climb Kilimanjaro.

¹ A fair bit of Tanzanian coffee is apparently relabled as "Kenyan" before it is sold in the US.