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Trek to the summit with Thomson Safaris!

David Breashears, famed mountaineer, six-time Everest summiteer, filmmaker, and director of the epic IMAX film “Kilimanjaro: To the Roof of Africa,” fully recommends Thomson Safaris as the best company to take trekkers up Kilimanjaro. He recognizes Thomson’s superior safety standards, unparalleled experience, and unwavering dedication to quality, sustainable travel, and ethical porter treatment. We look forward to showing you the ‘Thomson Difference’ in action.

SAFETY IS OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY.

We've just added some new features to the KiliTrekker.Com site. You'll notice links to our gear store, and to JRO airfares and NBO airfares, as well as Google pay-per-click ads at the bottom of the page. This is partly an attempt to get the site to pay for its own web hosting fees, but we hope you'll find these new features useful too. In the event that revenues actually exceed expenses, we'll choose some Kilimanjaro related charities to help out (We've already started that ball rolling with a donation to Glenn's charity climb in support of the Northern Ireland Children's Hospice).

Hi! Glenn here!
I will be trekking the Machame route from Monday 3rd November 2008, to raise funds, and public awareness of the fantastic work carried out at the Northern Ireland Children's Hospice.

Before I started KiliTrekker.Com, I had a plan for a series of other Kilimanjaro websites and I registered a bunch of domain names...

It's clear now that I won't have time to use them, so I'm offering these domain names for sale. I might even trade some of them in exchange for a few good pages posted here on the KiliTrekker.Com site!

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Starting from the drier north side of Kilimanjaro at the village of Naremoru near the Kenya border, Rongai is a less traveled route allows trekkers to distance themselves from the busier routes on the lower elevations, a complete traverse of the mountain, a great variety of vistas that most climbers never get to see, and the possibility of observing wildlife at a safe distance. The route passes through lush farmland and pine and cypress forests before ascending into the rainforest. In the higher moorland zone you have views of the Kenyan plains.

Kilimanjaro: The Trekking Guide to Africa’s Highest Mountain
Author: Henry Stedman
Published by: Trailblazer Publications, U.K., 2006 (2nd edition)

There are several dozen outfitters who provide climbing services in Tanzania. It can be challenging to determine which one to use. Here are some important things you should look for:

1. They care about your mountain experience (many outfitters are just looking to make money).
2. They have their own operation in Tanzania.
3. They use the best routes.
4. They provide sufficient time to acclimatize. The more time you spend on the mountain the greater your chances of reaching the summit.
5. They have high quality tents and equipment.
6. They provide experienced mountain guides.

For a night or two in Moshi Town we recommend the Bristol Cottages. Clean, comfortable, quiet, and reasonably priced rooms in private landscaped gardens in the heart of Moshi, the gateway city to Kilimanjaro.
See http://www.kiliweb.com/bristol.html.