Little shopping in Arusha, back from Arusha to Moshi, then spent the day before starting the climb in Moshi. Browsed the used clothing market, had a drink on top of the Kindoroko Hotel, and then ate dinner with our guides at IndoItaliano, which had better Indian food than anywhere I've been in the US.
Kili is so big that the upper 3/4 is almost always covered in cloud. We got a lucky view of the peak from Kindoroko. I've never seen anything on this scale in my life, and now that I'm back in Utah, our mountains seem absolutely tiny. Take some prominent "massive" peaks in Utah like Olympus, quadruple their gain, and you get Kilimanjaro, which rises more than 16200' above nearby Moshi:
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