You can be forgiven for not having heard of this mountain range because it seems few people have. But I don't know why. It is the highest mountain range in Africa, containing Africa's third highest peak, and has the biggest ice caps left on the continent. Since the mountain range straddles the equator they get a lot of sun, and being downwind of the Congo basin, also a lot of rain. Consequently the vegetation is really bizarre. There are are forests of heather six metres high, giant lobelia and lots of other plants that look familiar but are enormous. So bugs and animals that usually eat them are scaled up as well. Overall you get the feeling that you are trekking somewhere like Middle Earth. There are jungle elephants here too, but we only saw the
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