The Evil Genius
September-24th-2012, 03:29 PM
Just in case you have $85k laying around and you want something to tell your grandkids.
Seriously, this is cool. And it provides clean water in the end.
http://blog.sfgate.com/travel/2012/09/24/the-85000-bike-ride/
It’s a trip that puts the “mountain” in mountain biking.
If you’re an avid biker — maybe bat-crap-crazy biker is more accurate — and you love travel and challenges, the nice folks with bike-tour operator Trek Travel have come up with one of those rare chances for you to be first at something: Taking two days to bike down 19.340-foot Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain on the African continent.
And it’ll only cost you $55,000 to $85,000. Per person. Airfare not included.
The good news is that the trip is a humanitarian fundraiser and that roughly 90 percent of the fare goes to WorldServe water projects in Tanzania, where 40 percent of children don’t reach the age of 5 because of water-borne illnesses, according to a recent Trek Travel announcement. So of your $55,000. $48,500 of it is a tax-deductible donation that pays for a “solar-powered pumping project” that will provide 2,400 Maasai a generation of clean water. The $85,000 option pays for two water projects and sponsors a clean-up of Kilimanjaro.
MORE AFTER LINK
Seriously, this is cool. And it provides clean water in the end.
http://blog.sfgate.com/travel/2012/09/24/the-85000-bike-ride/
It’s a trip that puts the “mountain” in mountain biking.
If you’re an avid biker — maybe bat-crap-crazy biker is more accurate — and you love travel and challenges, the nice folks with bike-tour operator Trek Travel have come up with one of those rare chances for you to be first at something: Taking two days to bike down 19.340-foot Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain on the African continent.
And it’ll only cost you $55,000 to $85,000. Per person. Airfare not included.
The good news is that the trip is a humanitarian fundraiser and that roughly 90 percent of the fare goes to WorldServe water projects in Tanzania, where 40 percent of children don’t reach the age of 5 because of water-borne illnesses, according to a recent Trek Travel announcement. So of your $55,000. $48,500 of it is a tax-deductible donation that pays for a “solar-powered pumping project” that will provide 2,400 Maasai a generation of clean water. The $85,000 option pays for two water projects and sponsors a clean-up of Kilimanjaro.
MORE AFTER LINK