KILIMANJARO MOUNTAIN PORTERS DEDICATION & LOVE

It is often overlooked that good porters are the key to survival and wholesome success of a Mount Kilimanjaro climb. Without them, you would not have food, water, shelter or any creature comforts except what you carried yourself. Your porters carry everything you need as well as 15 kilos (33 pounds) of your own personal equipment to save your energy and ensure optimum conditions for your summit success on your Kilimanjaro dream trip.

In addition to tents, tables, chairs, safety equipment and what they themselves need to survive, they transport all the extra food and water you need to maintain wellbeing under rigorous conditions at high altitudes. They do this under severe climactic stress, altitude changes and extremely difficult terrain.

You will see them stepping lightly from rock to rock, like the nimble dik-dik, balancing tables, portaloos and other awkward loads on their heads. Their courage, strength, stamina and hardihood are amazing. They will trek up and down the mountain, sometimes bringing fresh food and water, preceding you to camp sites to set up tents and see that you have hot and energizing food on arrival. Accorded the respect they deserve and treated with consideration, they are delightful company, cheerful, friendly and exuberant.

Amongst themselves, they work well, in a comradely manner, making the work fun, challenging each other and providing new models that demonstrate how different people achieve their ends, often with a great deal of shouting and laughter until apparent chaos and disorder resolves itself into perfectly organized logistics.

Sadly, few of them are badly treated by unscrupulous tour operators and climbers alike looking to cut mountain costs. They are often exploited, underpaid, ill clad for the expedition, without adequate shelter, underfed and overburdened. Many of them are unprepared for the rigors of a Kilimanjaro trailing expedition and few die of altitude sickness, injury or hypothermia.

Uhuru Trails by AfricanMecca takes the welfare of their porters very seriously, ensuring that they have adequate training, good leadership, more than market rate wage, and are not entirely reliant on tips from grateful trekkers. They are warmly clothed, well-fed and sheltered. Confucious Golden Rule makes sense in all social and commercial transactions. “Not once should you treat anyone in a way that you would not like to be treated yourself”.

By choosing Uhuru Trails by AfricanMecca for your Kilimanjaro highlands safari, you ensure the welfare of your support staff and provide much-needed employment. At the end of your holiday adventure on Mt. Kilimanjaro, your tips but also gifts of unwanted clothing and equipment will be gratefully received, building their self-esteem to become guides in the future and enabling them to improve conditions for themselves and their families. Always offer new, crisp currency, in US dollars, both as a courtesy and because older US notes are not legally acceptable in Tanzania.

Your porters have earned this by their care and concern for you, their unstinting service, tireless example and cheerful encouragement. Sitting together for a meal or a celebratory farewell dance, enriches your African cultural holiday memories of the time spent in the Tanzanian wilderness, with the warm and friendly African people. Empathy with another culture is the basis for mutual understanding and respect, and for the development of our own better selves.

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