Today began the longest travel day that we have had thus far on our trip. For those of you wondering how long it takes to get from the middle of the Serengeti to a little village nestled in the alps, the answer is about 36 hours:
Here is our adventure:
8:30 – Land Cruiser, Lodge to the Grumeti Airstrip (dirt runway...watch out for the wildebeest and baboons)
10:30 – 12-seat Sesna Airplane
11:35 – Land Cruiser, Arusha airport to lunch
14:00 – Land Cruiser, lunch to afternoon day lodge – REI scheduled about 3 hours of down time for all of us at the day lodge in case of early flights out or late flights into the local airports
17:30 – Land Cruiser, day lodge to Kilimanjaro airport
19:45 – ATR 72, Kilimanjaro to Nairobi – say good bye to all our new friends...quite interesting, this plane took off 40 minutes early, good thing we were there early. Upon inquiry found that it's normal for this flight to leave that early
22:20 – 747, Nairobi to Amsterdam – Sat next to funny Dutchman
6:03 – Starbucks at Amsterdam airport...ahh a mocha, a taste of home
6:44 – Train, Amsterdam to Utrecht
7:29 – Train, Utrecht to Frankfurt – free chocolate
10:54 – Train, Frankfurt to Mannheim
11:36 – Train, Mannheim to Interlaken – So cool that they have Belgian beer for sale ON the train, also more free chocolate...We like German trains!
16:00 – Train, Interlaken to Lauterbrunnen
16:30 – Cable Car, Lautebrunnen to Grutschalp
16:45 – Train, Grutschalp to Murren
17:30 – Laundry in a real laundry machine (woot).
19:00 – Fondue made with swiss cheese by swiss people...yum!
21:00 – Sleep
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