The magnificent Mt. Kilimanjaro

It rises out of Loitokitok's backyard, its humongous, it’s beautiful. It’s the landmark in this area: Mt Kilimanjaro. On good days it dons a white crown and on other days it disappears behind a cloudy curtain


I tend to learn a lot about people, places and things from the name. Mlima is Kiswahili for mountain, kilima on the other hand is a hill, so I was intrigued by this suffix in 'kilimanjaro'. Turns out the name comes from the Chagga who have lived on the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro for a couple of hundreds of years. They used to refer to it as 'Kilima Kyaro' meaning the 'shining mountain'. The Brits could not pronounce it right, so they coined Kilimanjaro, and it stuck to this day.


Mt Kili is a stratovolcano, as the name implies they are formed by stratified layers of both viscous lava flows and fragmental material, their towering peaks rise several thousand feet above their sorroundings. Mt. Kilimanjaro has three peaks Mawenzi,Kibo and little known Shira. Kibo is the youngest, while Shira is the oldest.

Been hoping to write about my eye-candy in Loitokitok for a long time .

(Mt Kili from the plains of amboseli)