PIONEERING APPROACH TO PRIVATE KILIMANJARO GUIDING FOR EACH TREKKER OFFERED BY UHURU TRAILS BY AFRICANMECCA

On a Kilimanjaro climbing trip with Uhuru Trails by AfricanMecca, each trekker has his own personal support guide. This is an innovative improvement on the usual ratio of other climb companies offering three guides to every five climbers. The advantages are manifold for those who have a 1:1 guide-climber ratio. A personal guide becomes a devoted ally in the struggle to conquer the highest peak in Africa. Treated with the respect due to his or her courage, hardihood and experience, your private personal guide will become your inspiration and your friend on the mountain.

He will be always at your side, enabling you to trek at your own steady pace without anxiety to stay close to the leader, so that you can take time to ask your shadow about the things you see, animals, plants or volcanic strata (read more on the geology, history and tribes of Kilimanjaro). He will share your enthusiasms. He will point out items of interest, eager to demonstrate his encyclopedic local knowledge and learn from you, in a mutually enriching reciprocal exchange.



Most of the mountain guides are from the local Chagga farming community, hardy, capable, reliable, and friendly engineers who have historically designed ingenious irrigation systems to bring water up the mountain to water their crops and now apply their resourcefulness to problem solving on hiking tours of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Instead of struggling on alone, you have a cheerful companion to pace you, reminding you to go “Pole, pole”, take it easy, go slowly, slowly and partner your energy. He will prompt you to drink enough water to avoid dehydration, take your mind off the less comfortable results of your exertion, and be there for your safety on challenging stretches, slippery forest paths, vertiginous ridges, overhanging rocks loose scree and melting ice (read more the five zones of Kilimanjaro).

He will guide your steps when you are unsure, encourage you when you are tired and entertain you with stories, histories, songs and Swahili language lessons adding an extra dimension to your African mountain vacation with the fascinating opportunity to learn about life in another country and another culture. He will monitor your overall condition, breathing, color, aches and pains, and mood, to keep the team leader, a fully trained altitude responder, informed, so that he can make the best decisions for all the party.

Guides are competitively paid and keep their families on the proceeds of ascending Kilimanjaro mountain twice a month. But they rely on your tips to supplement their income, just like as all guides do in the hospitality industry worldwide. Tips are given in person at the end of the trip and our recommended tip is not an unreasonable gift for the person who has dedicated himself and life to you for the entire route. Depending on the service you have received and the rapport you have established, whether you achieve the summit or not, he deserves this recognition. Uhuru Trails by AfricanMecca are committed to ethical and fair treatment of all their guides and other mountain staff.

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