I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo

Oh no amateur traveler episode 699. Today we talk about a mountain over 19,000 feet with five different

climatic zones. It's the tallest freestanding mountain in the world and it may be

on your bucket list as today we talk about climbing Kille Manjaro.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. We carry on it's episode 699 and let's talk about Keeley Munjaro. I'd like to welcome the show Kylie Chen from Aikenela.com who has come to talk to us about and we're going to

pronounce us in a couple different ways

Killa Manjaro or Keene Manjaro?

Kiley welcome to the show.

Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. I'm excited to be here.

And I say we're going to pronounce it a couple different ways because my recollection from Tansini

is the same as you were telling me before we started recording is that the real name of the place

is Kili Manjaro, which means... So yeah, Kili Manjaro which means?

So yeah Kili Manjaro means white mountain, which makes sense because I think the only white mountain,

right, snow covered mountain in all of Africa.

Right.

Well, and I take your word for that.

I was in Tanzania, I think for 10 days, never saw the mountain, and I was on the mountain.

The foothills of the mountain, never saw the mountain, never saw the top until we flew out.

So which is not an uncommon thing as I understand.

Yeah, a lot of clouds blow in and when you're close to it as well,'s hidden in a sense there's a couple peaks

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