MADE IN TANZANIA GUIDES BY UHURU TRAILS BY AFRICANMECCA - EXPERT, EXPERIENCED & LOCAL KILIMANJARO LEADERS

Unless you specifically request mountain guides of any given nationality, Uhuru Trails by AfricanMecca supply Tanzanian native guides, often Chagga people, hardworking, enterprising and resourceful Bantu farmers, familiar with Mount Kilimanjaro and its surrounding area from their childhood. Uhuru Trails by AfricanMecca also contract with other Tanzanian nationals, Maasai, and members of other diverse tribes, all united in their enthusiasm to develop safe ways to introduce visitors to the wonders of a hike on Kilimanjaro.

As you tramp along, they will divert you with stories, explanations, songs and language lessons, weaving a complex tapestry of personal anecdotes and unique insights that cannot fail to enrich your Tanzanian highlands tour experience. This relaxed dynamic is tainted by the addition of professional non-Tanzanian mountain guides whose attitudes are different, and whose attempts to control things in their own way often leads to resentment and confusion, losing all the friendly spontaneity of an established team and stifling the atmosphere of self-motivation and teasing rivalry that produces the best results.



There can also be language and communication problems with porters, chefs, local head guides sidelined as assistant guides and other support staff, due to rigid attitudes that demand outright mountaineering skills. The only real advantage in climbing with guides of different nationalities is when there are communication difficulties and you need someone who speaks your own language. This can certainly be arranged, but the local Tanzanian staff speak English and Swahili with little French, Spanish, Italian, German or other international languages (read more on the top 10 reasons to trek Kilimanjaro with Uhuru Trails by AfricanMecca).

Indigenous guides live and work in the area all year round, not just visiting occasionally for specific group treks. Therefore, they are intimately aware of the mountain in all its moods and familiar with local conditions as they develop. They are also more knowledgeable about flora and fauna in varied zones to geology and local history, having taken every opportunity to educate themselves on the subjects of importance in their work: subjects they have mastered not only by study, but by close personal acquaintance over a lifetime and passed on from generation to generation.



Local guides are used to climbing the mountain on a twice-monthly basis, negotiating its trails with diverse groups of visitors, whereas visiting guides only climb a limited number of times a year – around 2-3 times on average. Where a seasoned Tanzanian mountain guide has summited Mt. Kilimanjaro hundreds of times, incoming guides who require passports to be stamped in and out of Tanzania can count dozens of assaults, or even less.

By empowering Tanzanian staff, and training and trusting them, Uhuru Trails by AfricanMecca promotes independence and entrepreneurship amongst local people, encouraging them to help themselves, improve their skills and pride themselves on their achievement in taking thousands of visitors on mountainous vacation in Tanzania safely to the top of the highest summit in Africa. The founders of AfricanMecca Safaris are themselves East African, multilingual and very closely acquainted with the area, spending upwards of six weeks every year in personally sampling the African adventure resources they promote, equally at home in wilderness, and their after promoting Africa in bustling European and American commercial settings.

They are aware that sharing a cosmopolitan evening meal under the stars with hikers of various nationalities and the irrepressible African people, singing and playing together, nurtures a mutual understanding and confidence that has a positive effect on the outcome of any summit bid on this legendary triple-crowned East African volcano – dormant indeed!

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