Hiking to the famous Torres del Paine was an uphill battle, literally. The last section of the hike was extremely steep and it felt like for every one step up we slid two back. Eventually we made it, and after only a few minutes the clouds parted and we had a magnificent view. Before heading back down we witnessed a mini-avalanche on an ajoining slope, which needless to say helped encourage us back to the refugio in no time!
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Tobias Index: Africa & Levant
It’s taken us a little while to get this list together, but here’s our Africa Index. Interested in a statistic we haven’t listed here? Just ask!
Visa cost, in USD per person, of visiting those countries: $595
Most expensive visa process, in USD per person: $250 (Sudan)
Countries where boarder guard waved his rifle at us and told us to go back: 1
Time spent in months: 5.5
Nights spent sleeping on a bus: 3
Airplanes flown (for a side trip): 1
Airplanes boarded where our name or ticket was checked: 0
Total e. coli infections between us: 1
Number of times e. coli was fun: 0
Number of laughs at Danny’s expense due to e. coli: immeasurable
Total gastro-intestinal lab tests: 1
Number of weekly malaria tablets consumed: 46
Number of crazy dreams, psychotic episodes, or other side affects: 0
Time, in years, until the Red Cross is interested in having our blood: 1
Number of times “Dr.” Jill diagnosed us as having malaria: 5
Number of times we’ve actually had malaria…so far: 0
Number of languages we learned how to say ‘hello’ in: 7
Visitors from home: 1
Boxes sent home via mail: 3
Boxes destroyed via mail: 1
Tears shed: Unknown
Photos taken: 9,182
Amount of space, in gigabytes, needed to store our African photos and videos: 40
Weight, in kilograms, of an Elephant’s penis: 25
Elephants, in heat, who charged our car: 1
Leopards spotted: 2
Cheetahs spotted: 3
Lions spotted: 50+
Dorky references to Lion King: Immeasurable.
Distance in km, when driving directly, from Cape Town to Cairo: 12,000
Mileage in km, driving around South Africa, put on our 6 week rental car: 12,000
Number of bribes requested of us: 2
Number paid: 1
Number paid with money: 0
Number of nights spent with bed bugs and/or fleas: 1
Percentage of nights spent killing mosquitoes before bed: 50
Sleepless nights spent listening to wild animals immediately outside the tent: 3
Most expensive campsite: $55
Length of time we went without a real shower: 4 days
Cheapest pint of beer: $0.05
Highest Temperature we saw: 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit)
Really big mountains we were happy to have climbed: 1
Number of really big mountains we intend to climb again: 0
Longest time we waited for our Gmail Inbox to load: 30 minutes
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