Our Kilimanjaro packages cover all transfers outlined in the program. When you arrive at Kilimanjaro, one of our drivers will pick you up in a spacious and comfortable Toyota Alphard and take you to your hotel. Our cars have large trunks that can accommodate plenty of luggage. Inside you’ll find complimentary bottled water  a Wi-Fi hotspot, and wet wipes for your convenience. All our cars undergo regular examination and maintenance by our in-house team of technicians.

Our driving team consists of experienced and knowledgeable drivers, all of whom speak fluent English. 

For the transfer to the trailhead of your climbing adventure, we will use Toyota Hiace or Coaster, which are better suited for navigating the wilderness terrain en route to Mt. Kilimanjaro. These cars are built to handle rough trails and ensure your safety.

At the end of your journey, we’ll also provide you with a return transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport. With our comprehensive package, you can rest easy and enjoy the journey without worrying about your transportation.

The night before the climb and the night following the descent, you will be accommodated in a 3-star hotel in the area of Moshi Town. By default, you share a double-occupancy room unless you order a single supplement. In your hotel, you will find everything a traveler needs: professional staff, a restaurant, a swimming pool, comfortable rooms with mosquito nets, laundry service, and complimentary Wi-Fi.

Chacha Safari offers a Kilimanjaro adventure with all the necessary amenities for a safe and comfortable camping experience.

Developed to withstand strong winds and heavy rains, these 4-season tents provide a cozy atmosphere inside. Tent entrances are easy to open and close and provide a comfortable buffer zone. Rest assured that the ever-changing equatorial weather on Kilimanjaro will not disturb your much-needed sleep.

Our hikes include 3-inch sleeping mats produced by our company’s tailor shop, which is located right at our Machame climbing base.

Camping tables with stainless steel cutlery and ceramic crockery 

They are served and cleaned by a dedicated kitchen crew at each meal. At Chacha Safari, we are committed to reducing plastic waste and never using disposable tableware.

Our dining tents are strong, windproof, and rainproof, allowing for a comfortable dining and socializing experience even in bad weather.

Durable and comfortable chairs that provide excellent back and arm support, they’ll make evening get-togethers in the mess tents a pleasant pastime with your teammates. Grab one and enjoy an epic sunset from the edge of the camp!

Our camp crew regularly fills it with hot water so that you can keep your hands and face clean.

The camp managers arrive at the camping grounds hours ahead of your group to pick the most picturesque location at a distance from other hiking groups. They also keep a close eye on the tents and other camping equipment to ensure everything runs smoothly. Each camp manager carries a repair kit in case quick maintenance is needed, although our expedition managers inspect each tent before the expedition starts, making such situations unlikely.

Our mountain chefs and waiters will take care of preparing and serving your breakfasts, lunches, and dinners throughout the adventure. The menu has been designed in consultation with a professional dietitian to ensure that our meals are both delicious and energy-rich, providing hikers with the necessary nutrition. 

For example, for breakfast, you can expect to enjoy porridge, vegetables, eggs, sausages, sweet potatoes, spinach cooked in a local fashion (“mchicha”), and coffee or tea. For lunch, we usually serve various soups (butternut, tomato, leek, vegetable, beef); spaghetti; stews; avocado salads; mashed potatoes; fried chicken with coconut, tomato, garlic, and other sauces; minced meat in tomato sauce; and other popular international and local meals.

Similarly, for dinner, you can expect a soup; a vegetable salad (locally styled “Kachumbari”); a Mexican salad with tomatoes, corn, and onion and avocado; a juicy stew (such as bamia stew); fried vegetables; and various main dishes with chicken, beef, or fish. All meals are served with tasty sauces, and extra seasonings are always available on the table. After each meal, our waiters serve fresh local fruits, such as mangoes, oranges, pineapple, and bananas, to give hikers a vitamin boost.

We use organic, locally grown fruits, vegetables, and meat from neighboring farms to supply our trips. Our team rigorously checks each provider to ensure that it has a certification from the Tanzania Food and Drugs Authority (TFDA). Chacha Safari also prefers to choose small local farms instead of large agricultural companies. This way, we ensure that all produce is always fresh and organic and that our expeditions have a meaningful impact on the local economy.

Our mountain chefs will prepare all meals during the expedition, except for lunch on the first day of your trip, which you will have after entering the park and before reaching the first camp where we will set up our kitchen. Our chefs at the hotel will prepare this first lunch, and we will pack it for your adventure in sturdy compostable packaging 

On your adventure, you will be led by our outstanding Kilimanjaro mountain guides. 

Each guide has at least seven years of experience and boasts excellent knowledge of the Mt. Kilimanjaro terrain, flora, and fauna.

You are in safe hands: all our mountain guides are certified Wilderness First Responders. This certification is administered by an independent USA-based organization (“Wilderness Medical Associates”) and confirms that the certificate holders are well-trained to respond to any emergencies that may happen in the wilderness. This WFR badge, together with excellent knowledge of the routes and locations, is a precondition for taking a mountain leader position in our company.

Chacha Safari guides are good storytellers and will always be happy to entertain you with Kilimanjaro legends and tales. You will also learn a lot about the plants, animals, and history of the highest free-standing mountain in the world. For those interested, our mountain team will be a rich source of information about the local culture, lifestyle, and customs.

In the meantime, the guides are considerate and know when to take a step back to let you enjoy some peace and quiet alone. Whenever you want to enjoy some solitude with nature, our guides will quietly retreat to the background.

The guides will be supported by our hard-working porters, camp managers, and other members of the crew. They will pitch up the camp ahead of your arrival, bring water from the mountain streams, and carry all of the expedition’s supplies and gear. The mountain chefs will attend to the camp kitchen to provide you with nutritious and tasty meals.

Chacha Safari is proud to pay the highest salaries to our mountain crews in the Tanzanian tourism industry. Also, we open individual bank accounts for each member of the expedition team to ensure transparency and accountability for salary payouts. Taking good care of our mountain crews is the foundation of our work.

Due to that, our guiding team receives positive reviews daily. They are undoubtedly the key reason we are ranked as the #1 Kilimanjaro trekking company on TripAdvisor.

Every morning and evening on the hike, our WFR-certified guides perform medical check-ups to ensure that both hikers and crew members (including porters, camp managers, and chefs) are properly acclimating to the altitude. During these check-ups, our guides will ask general questions about your health and measure your oxygen saturation level. In some cases, they may also need to check your blood pressure or listen to your lungs with a stethoscope to assess your breathing.

It’s mandatory for all hikers to attend those medical check-ups, even for those who feel great and don’t have any altitude-related symptoms. They allow our guiding team to diagnose the early stages of AMS (Acute Mountain Sickness) and take preventive measures to ensure that everyone is acclimating properly and that the hike is a pleasant and safe adventure.

Our in-company doctor carefully previews all pre-departure health forms completed by the hikers on the Chacha Safari Personal Trip Board. He ensures that each participant is indeed ready for the adventure and provides health-related recommendations if needed. 

At all times, our central goal is for your Kilimanjaro climb to be a safe and memorable experience. For that to happen, we will strictly follow our protocols and do as much as we can to never compromise your safety on Kilimanjaro.

Chacha Kilimanjaro trips are fully inclusive of all park fees that every Kilimanjaro hiker is liable to pay. This includes camping and conservation fees, rescue fee, crew fee, forest fee (on certain routes), and other payments. These payments make up about half of the total price and are one of the reasons why Mt Kilimanjaro hiking tours are more expensive compared to the other popular destinations.

As a law-abiding and transparent company, Chacha Safari pays all taxes in Tanzania such as VAT (18%), corporate income taxes (30%) and labor-related levies and duties, licensing fees and social security deductions for our employees, all of whom are officially employed by Chacha Safari. We are proud to be one of the few travel companies in Tanzania doing that.

When you book with Chacha Safari, your tour will be in the good hands of chacha team dedicated professionals who are committed to ensuring that your tour is an amazing experience. Our team includes experts in reservation, transfer planning, expeditions, customer experience, logistics, and other areas, each responsible for their specific role in the process. We also have large hotel, store-keeping, transfer, and other teams, whose contribution is essential and always available. They work together seamlessly to ensure that every aspect of your tour is carefully planned and executed to the highest standard.

The travel consulting team is available to assist you 24/7. You can easily reach out to your manager through various channels, such as messengers, email, phone, or any other convenient method. We are always here to answer your questions and address any concerns you may have, and our support team works across different time zones.

At Chacha Safari, we take pride in offering environmentally friendly treks. Our goal is to leave Kilimanjaro cleaner after every expedition. To achieve this goal, we assign a special team to ensure that our climbing crew and customers leave no waste on the mountain. This team also collects any waste left by litterbugs from other groups on the trek, so we can keep Kilimanjaro looking as pristine as it did during the times of Hans Meyer and Ludwig Purtscheller, who are credited with being the first Europeans to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.

We are committed to minimizing the use of plastic in our expeditions whenever possible. For instance, the packaging for the lunchboxes on the first day of your trip (hot lunch is provided on all other days) is compostable. We source our packaging from Vegware, a leading UK-based provider of food packaging with a strong environmental focus.

When you choose Chacha Safari for your trip, you’re making a meaningful contribution to the development of local communities in Kilimanjaro. We’re committed to sustainability, and as part of our pledge, we allocate a part of our profits to various social responsibility initiatives. Here are some examples:

• Our guides regularly participate in firefighting efforts on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. Climate change is affecting even relatively remote countries like Tanzania, and unfortunately, we’ve seen a significant increase in bushfires in recent years. When two large fires erupted on Kilimanjaro in 2020 and 2022, our expedition team was among the first to respond. It was later discovered that our strong team of 150 porters was larger and more productive than all the other crews sent by all the other operators combined.  

• In response to the growing crisis of deforestation, we have undertaken several large-scale tree-planting efforts on the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro and in the surrounding areas. We are currently planning additional reforestation activities to further combat the issue.

• Chacha Safari is on a mission to improve the lives of students in the remote Materuni area. Over 50 local students have been attending a school with dilapidated classrooms, a leaking roof, and a lack of essential educational materials. The teachers have been doing their best to maintain a positive learning environment, but they are struggling with limited resources. That’s where Chacha Safari stepped in. We began funding the renovation of the school, providing building materials, and supplying educational materials as well as sports equipment. Our goal is to create a brighter future for these children by providing them with the tools and resources they need to succeed.

• Finally, we’re committed to using local suppliers for all our operations and have made a deliberate decision to avoid large agricultural companies in favor of small farmers from the surrounding communities. 

At Chacha safari, we support only meaningful and impactful projects that bring real change to local communities. Each application we receive from local NGOs or eco-activists is carefully scrutinized by our board before we allocate funding.

By participating in our climbs, you’re directly supporting positive change in the communities around Mount Kilimanjaro. You may read more about the social responsibility efforts you are going to support on this page of our website. 

We understand that some things that you bring with you to Tanzania won’t be necessary for your Kilimanjaro climb, such as suitcases, clothes for safari or other parts of your trip, laptops, gadgets, and documents. We recommend that you take only what’s truly essential for your expedition to the mountain and leave fragile or easily stainable items at our storage facilities or in a safe room.

To give you peace of mind while you enjoy the wonders of Kilimanjaro, we have built a secure storage facility where you can safely leave all your suitcases and handbags. The facility is dry, well-ventilated, and only accessible to Chacha Safari staff.

For items that require special handling, such as cash, jewelry, passports, gadgets, and other valuables,Chacha Safari offers space in our safe room. 

If you want to deposit your valuables in our care, you will need to itemize them and fill out a special form. If you leave cash with us, we will use a cash counter machine to help you count the money. You’ll get a receipt listing the cash left in our care. You will sign it, and we will have it sealed together in your presence.

To ensure transparency, we record the process with a high-resolution camera, and all records are deleted 30 days after you leave Tanzania.