-> Kenya (total time in East Africa, 5 weeks)
07/17: fly to Nairobi
Nairobi, eat exotic foods at Carnivores
07/18: join Dragoman tour
-> Tanzania
07/18: Rift Valley Escarpment & Lake Manyara
07/19: Masai Boma tribal community project
07/20: Serengeti National Park
07/21: Ngorongoro Crater
-> Kenya
07/22: Kakamega Forest (only rainforest in Kenya)
-> Uganda
07/23: Lake Victoria
07/24: Jinja (the source of the Nile) & Kampala
07/27: the jungles of Mgahinga and the Impenetrable Forest (to see mountain gorillas in the wild)
08/01: Mgahinga National Park
08/02: Lake Bunyonyi
08/03: Kampala
leave Dragoman tour
Jane Goodall Institute on Ngamba Island (to play with the chimps)
-> Tanzania
bus from Kampala to Arusha (14-16 hours)
Climb Kilimanjaro (Marangu route)
8/07: Le Jacaranda Hotel in Arusha
8/08: to Mandara hut (9,000 ft)
8/09: to Horombo hut (12,000 ft)
8/10: Acclimatization day at Horombo
8/11: to Kibo (15,000 ft)
8/12: to Summit (19,340 ft), then descend to Horombo hut
8/13: to Marangu gate, transfer to Arusha (Le Jacaranda Hotel)
8/14: Check out of hotel
bus from Arusha to Dar Es Salaam, then boat to Zanzibar
Chill out on the island of Zanzibar
-> Kenya
fly from Zanzibar to Nairobi
08/19: fly out of Nairobi
-> Boston