Trekking Mount Kilimanjaro procedures Preparing for the trek to the African continent’s highest point is a long process. Once you’ve selected a trekking company, paid the deposits, booked your flights, received all your vaccinations and trained up well enough, packing hardly seems like a big task. While your trekking company will send you an extensive...Read More
At sometimes planning your first safari to East Africa, you may be confused aboutthe choice of accommodation facilities to stay in. Should you stay in a lodge, a tented camp, or ina budget campsite? And what is the difference anyway? While a guesthouse or hotel consists of one large building and all guests sleep under...Read More
Using Diamox on Kilimanjaro What is Diamox? Diamox (alias Acetazolamide), as it is used for Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS), is a diuretic (i.e. it promotes the production of urine) and a prophylactic (i.e. is used as a preventative medicine – not a cure). It is also a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor (ahem, what?). Essentially this means...Read More
he food depends on what kind of hotels and lodges you stay in, it can either be a 4 star or a 3 star quality. There are various lodges or tented camps that provide best food or meals. We try to find the lodge with the best food in each category, budget or moderate, normally...Read More
