Slept okay, awake at 6.00am, back to sleep and then woken by 9.00am alarm and down for breakfast, no sign of Johns bag so starting to get a bit more worried.
Decent breakfast, made the most of it, then into reception and a bright yellow bag was waiting for its owner…massive relief all round. That certainly cheered everyone up.
John and Pauline stayed up in their room to sort out his re-packing and we sat by the pool chatting to people who are in the same hike as us tomorrow, one of them actually from Thame. Couldn’t believe it, small world.
After sorting their packing they came down to the pool and we went out for a walk into Arusha. Quite nice walk down but got stared at a lot, hardly surprising really as we were the only white people in the village! Made it to the town centre and then got approached by someone every 30 steps. Wasn’t bad or uncomfortable but just annoying. However, you can obviously understand why because everything is so cheap so getting money off tourists would be a massive bonus. We negotiated that area and went to the bank and decided we’d had enough so walked back via another route. It was still interesting seeing the way of life.
Back at the sanctuary of the hotel we had beers, cocktails and food by the pool. It was busy, found out the people we spoke to this morning are part of our group of 13 so that’s nice. Loads of people by the pool today. Busy.
Up to the room around 5.30pm and relaxed trying not to fall asleep. Down for dinner and loads of water and back up at 9.00pm for an early night, although messed about with our bags again weighing them. Mine are a fraction heavy but they can’t possibly be fussy enough over a few grams! We’ll see, bed at 10.00pm. Early start tomorrow.
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