Today has been a long day/two days. It started yesterday at 6 with our talking showers. That’s when you have a dude outside your tent pouring hot water for you while you shower. It was odd. Then a drive to the Lake Manyara airport, stopping once at a tourist shop where the sales man attempted to truly spectacularly rip me off. It happened at all the shops in Tanzania, I guess they get more susceptible tourusts than usual. After a two hour wait there we flew to Mt. Kilanmajaro airport and a 5 hour wait. Mt Kilanmajaro was smaller than I expected, also for some reason I had imagined a more volcano shape but it was rather wide. Then to Addis Ababa, 2 hour wait. Weird weird airport, and then to Cairo which was surprisingly nice. We were there five years ago and were clearly in a different terminal. This one was modern and nice, the last one didn’t even have seats for people so everyone sat on ground lining the hallways. Finally a flight to Athens, a long taxi ride, and our hotel. Horrifyingly, they could not check us in (at 7 AM), we had been awake for about 26 hours at this point. So we stowed our luggage and booked a tour of the Acropolis. We did a walking tour starting with the Pnyx, the birthplace of democracy. In that field the citizens of Athens in 600-400bc gave speeches and voted on policy. Then we saw what was once thought to be the jail of Athens, it was in fact just a house. Then the walk up to the Acropolis. Amazing buildings, the Parthenon, the main building in the Acropolis, was huge and imposing. They’ve been restoring it for 200 years and well, they still got some work to do. The Parthenon is a temple to Athena and was built in just under 9 years. It was the first time cranes were invented and used for construction as well as several architectural tricks to make it look larger. The other buildings are also temples to Athena, one the wingless Nike, the other I honestly don’t remember. It was late/early/I was lucky I could walk I was so tired. We then went back to the hotel, still couldn’t check in, read for a couple hours, then finally, FINALLY, got checked in and a bed. 1pm, 31 hours since we last got up. Ouch. Slept for 6 hours, went out and grabbed dinner, an amazing skewer of meat and pita. Finally drinks at our hotel rooftop bar, watching the Acropolis lit up in the night.