Pocheezy Kama Dizee in Machame

I did not climb Kilimanjaro. I doubt that I will. But what we did do, is go up to the gate of the Kilimanjaro National Park gate, ask for the price to enter and then decided to camp just outside the gate instead.

We put up our tents in a patch of grass surrounded by barbwires and small bars and toilets. We asked them why they had put up the barbwire and they responded that it was to keep away the monkeys from the grass… to us, it felt more like to keep away the other drunk locals from the “muzungus” (white people)… so instead of trekking Kilimanjaro, we set up our tents and got drunk with the locals, i.e. the locals that were allowed within the barbwire area.

In the morning we walked the opposite way to the Kilimanjaro gate and kept on walking until we got tired and hitched a ride back to the hostel…

And why did we do all that? As the Swahili saying goes… Pocheezy Kama Dizee… translation - cos we’re crazy like bananas!
Machame is full of banana trees….