Kilimanjaro Guides & Porters
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MT KILIMANJARO GUIDES AND PORTERS
The quality of Kilimanjaro Local Guide Services is paramount in ensuring the best experience on Mount Kilimanjaro. Our team stands out as the finest on Kilimanjaro, guaranteeing top-notch service throughout your climb. Picture waking up on day six of your ascent, high up on Kilimanjaro, greeted by friendly faces offering you coffee and refilling your water bottles. After a day of climbing to 15,300 feet, you return to camp to find dinner ready and waiting. These welcoming individuals are the Kilimanjaro Porters, whose diligent work ensures you stay hydrated, nourished, sheltered, and safe during your journey. They play a crucial role in the success of your climb, carrying equipment, supplying necessities, and providing support for climbers to reach the summit. Without them, reaching the top of Africa would be incredibly challenging. Kilimanjaro Porters and Guides are indispensable in achieving a successful summit. The porters, in particular, are the unsung heroes who facilitate climbers’ journeys by carrying their gear and aiding their ascent. At times, they collaborate with the Kilimanjaro Rescue Team in case of emergencies, showcasing their dedication to ensuring climbers’ safety and success.
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You can expect the following From The Team
- High Safety Standards – Your guide can identify and avoid potential hazards such as slippery trails and loose rocks. Your guide can prevent, recognize and treat altitude-related illnesses.
- Climb Knowledge – Kilimanjaro trails are clearly marked, so following a trail should not pose a problem. But there are more intricate things that your guide will take into consideration when deciding when, where, and how to move the party. These things include weather conditions, trail density, rest stops, pace, etc.
- Mountain Facts – Your guide is knowledgeable about general mountain facts. He can tell you about the vegetation zones, the altitudes of and distances to campsites, and information about the geology, flora and fauna. These types of facts increase the enjoyment during the trek by giving you an idea of what you are seeing and feeling.
- Our Kilimanjaro guides love working with us because we book small, private parties on the best routes.
- Our porters take care of you. So we take care of them.
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HOW MUCH DO YOU TIP ON KILIMANJARO?
We follow Kilimanjaro Porters Assistance Program (KPAP) recommended guidelines on all aspects of guide and porter payments and welfare. KPAP publish recommended tipping amounts for all operators which we adopt.
Recommending tipping amounts for Climbing Kilimanjaro are the same no matter which route you end up choosing. You should tip;
- Lead guide: $20/day
- Assistant guide: $15/day
- Porters: $8/day (for each porter)
- Cook: $15/day
These amounts are per group of climbers NOT per climber. You will be advised of the total size of your crew in your final briefing pack.
As a general guide for a climb for two people over 7 days, a normal crew would comprise 1 x lead guide, 1 x assistant guide, 1 x cook and 6 to 7 x porters. If your climb is longer then the number of porters will increase as more food will need to be carried for everyone. Also, if you have booked a private toilet there will an additional toilet porter who carries the equipment and makes sure it’s kept clean.
Tips should be paid to the head guide on the morning of the last day of the climb. The head guide will then distribute tips according to our strict policy.
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