Have you been somewhere amazing this year? Readers are sharing their recent travel adventures, snapping photos of themselves cycling Oregon bike trails, 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.
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TANZANIA: San Jose resident Navneet Parmar and a group of friends — pictured from left, Seattle residents Saumil Gandhi and Sandeep K, Palo Alto’s Abhishek Parmar and Navneet Parmar — are just back from a hiking trip to Uhuru Peak at Kilimanjaro, elevation 19,341 feet.
“It was an eight-day trip,” Navneet says. “Six and a half days to reach the peak and one and a half to come down. The hike goes through five different vegetation zones ranging from cultivated land, rain forest, moorland and alpine desert to the peak, which used to be a glacier and still has walls of snow. Related Articles Travel | Wish You Were Here: Epic waterfalls around McCloud, Dunsmuir
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“It was definitely a trip of a lifetime and having a chance to do it with your friends and the crew from Tanzania made it all worthwhile.”
TRAVEL TIP: “My tip to people thinking of doing Kili would be to build up endurance and pack layers of good quality clothes,” Navneet says. “As they say in Kili, everything is accomplished if you do it ‘pole, pole’ meaning ‘slowly, slowly’!”
Join in 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 fellow readers do that awesome thing, too.
A reader reports in from atop Mount Kilimanjaro
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