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2011-03-05T10:09:00.001-08:00

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Mount Kilimanjaro stands on featureless part of the East African plateau, on the Tanzanian side of the Kenya border near Moshi, side by side with the smaller Mount Meru. These mountains are extinct volcanoes, with Kilimanjaro actually being the agglomeration of three distinct volcanoes, Kibo (5896m/ 19,340 ft), Mawenzi (5,149 / 16,896 ft) and Shira (3,962m / 13,000 ft).Mount Kilimanjaro is geologically associated with the creation of the Great Rift Valley, 100km to the West.
The Kilimanjaro has created a micro-climate around them and the rain-shadow created to their South and East supplies the beautiful and superbly fertile land in which the towns of Moshi situated full of banana groves and coffee plantations. Kilimanjaro National Park comprises the entire mountain above the tree line and six forest corridors that stretch through the forest belt. Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, hiking Kilimanjaro, trekking Kilimanjaro, Tanzania trekking, online safari booking, Mount Kilimanjaro climbing, trekking tours, Africa’s highest mountain, Tanzania highest peak, Marangu route, Machame route.
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2010-04-07T08:19:00.000-07:00

Mount Kilimanjaro has a lot about Nature, People and Cultural inheritance everyone has to know and enjoy. Mount Kilimanjaro National Park is one of the 14 parks which are under the Custodian of Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA). The Park was Designated and Gazetted in 1973, and has an area of 756 square kilometres.

Kilimanjaro Location

Kilimanjaro is located just (Location: 3.07 S, 37.35 E) near the equator, in the Tropical Country yet its peak covered by snow throughout the year. Rising abruptly from the open plains, capped by snow and frequently fringed by clouds, it is one of Africa’s classic images.

Kilimanjaro is the majestic Mountain shrouded in mist, mystery and legend. It attracts a large number of climbers, naturalists, and explorers every year, each determined to conquer its majestic heights. Without following designated routes it can be difficult for Climber to reach the summit, many Europeans attempted. Take these vivid examples; finally Rebmann was the first European to have sighted Mt. Kilimanjaro in 1848, and it was not until 1889 when Hans Meyer successfully scaled the summit.

Mountain climbing is exhilarating, beautiful and challenging. As thousands of Tourists climb Mt. Kilimanjaro every year, our guides gains experience, explore and narrate all what is new in Mt. Kilimanjaro geology, Forests, wild animals, weather, and tips on successful climbing to the top.

Mt. Kilimanjaro Formation/Genesis

Kilimanjaro is a giant stratovolcano reaching an elevation of 19,335.6 ft. (5,895 m). Is one of the largest Volcano ever to burst through the earth’s crust.

Africa's tallest mountain, with its white peak, is one of the most instantly recognisable sights in the world. But as this aerial photograph shows, Kilimanjaro's trademark snowy cap, at 5,895 metres (19,340ft), is now all but gone - 15 years before scientists predicted it would melt through global warming.

Kilimanjaro is a dormant, but not extinct Volcano. Ominous rumbles can sometimes be heard and gases emerge from the fume holes in the crater. Although it is just three degrees south of the Equator, the peaks of both Kibo and Mawenzi have permanent caps of Snow and Ice.

Mount Kilimanjaro Climbing

If you have not planned To Visit Tanzania and climb Mount Kilimanjaro, plan it now! You need to witness the Climatic change and its effects. Don’t wait to be told or just read as History from Books. A little more legend about this Highest Volcanic Mountain which is crowned by Snow! Other names for this volcano are: Kilima Dscharo, Oldoinyo Oibor (White Mountain in Masai), and Kilima Njaro meaning shining mountain in Swahili. This volcano's highest and youngest cone is named Kibo. Its outstanding features are its three major volcanic centers, Shira (4269m) in the West, Mawenzi (5280) in the East and the Snow capped Kibo in the centre (5895m). Kibo has not been active in modern times, but steam and sulfur are still emitted. At the top of Kibo's summit is a 1 1/2 mile (2 1/4 Km) wide crater. Kilimanjaro is the largest of an E-W belt of about 20 volcanoes near the southern end of the East African Rift Valley. It’s slopes and glaciers shimmering above the rising clouds and one of the greatest Volcanoes on Earth.
Mount Kilimanjaro is the crown of Open plains, capped by snow and frequently by clouds; it is one of Africa’s classic images. The diameter of its base is an incredible 40 miles. Besides the peaks and Moorland, the peaks consist of Montane forest with relics of old vegetation.

Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest Mountain in Africa 5895m/19340 ft. is the only Mountain in the World with the perfect symmetrical crater. Is the highest free standing Mountain in the World?

Is a metaphor for the compelling beauty of East Africa. Kilimanjaro is one of the highest walkable summits on the planet, a beacon for visitors from around the world. As well as “all the World, Great, High and unbelievably white” was Ernest Hemingway’s description in his book ‘the Snows of Kilimanjaro’.

KILIMANJARO NATURE, CULTURE and Ultimately successful Climb

Lowlands and even relatively high sheltered valleys can reach temperatures as high as 30 degree centigrade by day, night time temperatures generally fall below zero and even -20 degree centigrade.

The cloud cover over the rain forest tends to be denser. In Mt.Kilimanjaro National Park must be noted that Kilimanjaro has a typical Montane climate –unpredictable even in the ‘driest ‘season. A bright clear morning on Shira Plateau can turn to rain and Sleet in the Afternoon as the hot air rises from the lowland valleys and gathers moisture from the rainforest.

Get prepared for high altitude sun that can burn the skin severely and for cold nights that demand four season sleeping bags and good thermal clothing.

Kilimanjaro Tribe - Cultural Tour

Today the main African Tribe to inhabit the Kilimanjaro foothill region is the Wachagga People. Most importantly they from the largest tribal group involved in the Operation of Kilimanjaro climbs. Wachagga are adapted so well and so cheerfully to the task of guiding and looking after the “Wageni” as they pour into Tanzanian their thousands to climb the big Mountain. It is clearly narrated in many Literature that the First White Man (European) –Hans Meyer to conquer Mt. Kilimanjaro in the year 1889 was led by Chagga Guide (Mr.YOHANA LAUWO) to the Top 5895m/19340ft.
Kilimanjaro Trails

During their time on the Mountain, climbers pass from a tropical to arctic environment in just a few 5/6/7 days. The climber can use one of these routes to climb the Mountain; These are Marangu (Coca cola), Machame ( Whisky), Rongai, Shira, and Umbwe route/trail. The Classic Tours & Safaris Ltd Professional Mountain Guides will be happy to tell you more details about these routes, at right time. The various trails first pass through lush rainforests before reaching heather and open Moorland where giant lobelia and huge cactus –like groundsel grow.

Above moorland is the almost lunar landscape of an alpine desert which stretches between the two peaks of Kibo, the flat topped dome at the centre, and Mawenzi, a group of jagged points and pinnacles on the eastern side. In hospitable as this “moonscape” may seem, animals such as herds of eland thrive there.

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The highest point on Kibo and indeed the whole of Kilimanjaro is Uhuru Peak, with its spectacular hanging glaciers and stupendous views of the African plains some 20000 feet below. Also on Kibo is the slightly lower peak of Gillman’s Point. These are the goals for most trekkers. The peaks of Mawenzi are for Mountaineers only. With the Help of Porters and a Guide, it is possible to walk all the way to the summit without specialized Mountaineering equipment-or experience and Kilimanjaro can be conquered by any reasonably fit person. There are several different routes including Marangu (Coca cola route), the easiest climb, and therefore the most popular; Other routes Machame, Rongai, Lemosho/Londorosi Shira, Mweka and Umbwe.

The total climb normally takes five to six days and involves four or five overnight stays in comfortable mountain huts/camping sites. Fees payable in US dollars include park entrance and accommodation for climbers (Tourists). Guides and Porters, food, Camping equipments, food, Transport is organized by the Classic Tours & Safaris Ltd. Climbing gears/equipments like walking sticks, boots e.t.c can be brought by the Climber/tourists or hired from us.

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Luxury mobile camping safaris Tanzania

2009-12-08T10:13:00.000-08:00

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DAY 0: ARRIVAL AT KILIMANJARO INTERNATIONAL / ARUSHA AIRPORT Pick up and transfer to Naura Springs Hotel Arusha for dinner and overnight.

DAY 1: ARUSHA – LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK Drive to Lake Manyara National Park for lunch at Serena Lodge. Afternoon game drive.
Dinner and overnight at Manyara Serena Lodge.

DAY 2: LAKE MANYARA – SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK Drive to Serengeti with picnic lunch boxes. Game drive en route proceeds to our Luxury tented Camp for dinner and overnight.

DAY 3: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
Full day game drive in Serengeti. Meals and overnight at our Luxury Tented Camp

DAY 4: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
Half day game drive in Serengeti. Lunch at the camp. Afternoon game drive.
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overnight at our Luxury Tented Camp.

DAY 5: SERENGETI – NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA Drive to Serengeti via historical site “Olduvai Gorge”. Picnic lunch at the site. Continue with the game drive to Lake Masek Luxury Permanent Tented Camp for dinner and overnight

DAY 6: NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA
Full day game drive into the Crater. Picnic lunch at the crater floor.
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Lodge at Ngorongoro Karatu for dinner and overnight.

DAY 7: NGORONGORO – TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK Drive to Tarangire with picnic lunch boxes. Game drive. Dinner and overnight at Korongo Luxury Camp.

DAY 8: TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK
Full day game drive in Tarangire. Meals at the campsite. Dinner and overnight at Korongo Campsite

DAY 9: TARANGIRE – ARUSHA
Drive to Arusha for lunch at Naura Springs Hotel. Transfer to the airport for your flight back home

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African safaris best travel destination - Tanzania

2009-11-27T03:41:00.000-08:00

Tanzania travel as a unique wildlife safari destination in Africa

Tanzania is one of the unique destinations on the African continent that has yet to be discovered by many. It is a land of many wonders hubbing an un-paralleled diversity of fauna and flora. Tanzania is a Home to 8 World Heritage Sites, Man and Biosphere Reserves e.t.c. All these are tourist attractions that inspire people to travel from their countries and continents for sake to admire these wonders.

To maintain the beauty and ensure tourist visitors enjoy these wonders then Tour Operators should practice Responsible Travel.Responsible travel is also refered as EcoTourism. Ecotourism is a : "Responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people."

Classic Tours and Safaris Ltd is a Licensed Tour Company in Arusha Tanzania. Classic Tours is the Active member of Ecotourism Organisations like Internarional Ecotourism Society (TIES),Tanzania Wildlife Conservation Society and International Ecotourism Club.

We follow Eco-tourism guideline hence as our daily activities we focuses on local cultures, wilderness adventures, nature safaris,kilimanjaro climbing,walking safaris,bird watching,mountain climbing,contributes fund for nature and environmental conservation. Further more in certain cases we use Horse back raiding for wildlife viewing tours instead of Vehicles game drives.

We use local raised tour guides, well trained and these guides can delive wildlife nature safaris, wild animals and environment knowledge to tourist visitors.

One of the Great features of Ecotourism in East Africa is Mountains. Mountains hosts wild animals,birds,trees,water bodies and what have you. Activities are like climbing,trekking,walking safaris,bird watching,wildlife viewing. One of the Mountains with all those benefits is Mount Kilimanjaro.

KILIMANJARO is the highest mountain in Africa 5895m/19340ft and the tallest freestanding mountain known to man. It is a mountain where you can hike for more than 90 kilometers, gain 4 000 meters in altitude, traverse rain forest, moorland, alpine desert, snow fields and ice cliffs, all virtually on the equator! A truly unforgettable and fascinating adventure.

Is a metaphor for the compelling beauty of East Africa? Kilimanjaro is one of the highest walkable summits on the planet, a beacon for visitors from around the world.

Kilimanjaro Trekking,climbing Routes

Kilimanjaro trekking,climbing routes are; Machame route mostly 6 days, Marangu can be climbed 5 and 6 days, Londorossi/Lemosho 7 or 8 days, Umbwe 5 day or 6 days,Londorossi/Western Breach 8-10 days, Rongai 6 days , And 8 days Shira Exclusive fantastic route-through Shira Plateau from Londorossi gate is the most fascinating and scenic route up Kilimanjaro.

Kilimanjaro trekking successful can be influenced by Altitude sickness, so you should include acclimatization day as part of the trekking duration. Acclimatization will enable your body to become used to Kilimanjaro weather
Mount Kilimanjaro Climbing now wadays is influenced by Global warming. Global warming is causing snow to be diminishing.

If you have not planned To Visit Tanzania and climb Mount Kilimanjaro, plan it now! You need to witness the Climatic change and its effects. Don’t wait to be told or just read as History from Books. Today the main African Tribe to inhabit the Kilimanjaro foothill region is the Wachagga People. Most importantly they from the largest tribal group involved in the Operation of Kilimanjaro climbs.

Without the Climb, Mt. Kilimanjaro with safari in itself

It is not necessary to be a climber to enjoy a visit to the stunning Mount Kilimanjaro region. Indeed visitors can ascend 12000 feet to the Shira Plateau of West Kilimanjaro by Four –Wheel drive vehicle.

Day and night game drives are taken in open Land cruisers that allow for a full view in every direction.

Lake Jipe lies on the same same road. Sixteen kilometers long by five Kilometers wide, it is slightly saline and significantly large than Chala. On the Tanzania-Kenya border, It is rarely visited so exudes an atmosphere of tranquillity and Seclusion.

Points of interest.

-Waterfalls, with clear azure blue water, some can attempt swimming

-To go for a Birdwatching and explore the diversity of Bird species in Mount Kilimanjaro National Park.

-Cultural Tourism-There are a number of cultural Tourism Programs around Mt. Kilimanjaro. This includes Mostly Chagga and some Maasai. You can Reveal the useful Customs& Traditions, remains of ancient pre-colonial activities like iron smith and Colonial Wars like War Caves., First Churches built by Missionaries.

-Home and Legend of the Chagga Guide and Marangu native (African) Mr. Yohana Lauwo who was among the first Mountain Climber guide and aided the First Whiteman (European) Dr.Hans Meyer to Conquer Mt.Kilimanjaro in 1889.

Another Great feature in Tanzania is National parks and Game reserves which are habitats of thousands of millions of wild animals,trees and bird species which you can enjoy seeing them.

Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism with several governing Authorities like Wildlife Division, Tanzania National Parks and Ngorongoro Conservation Area make sure these wild animals habitat are protected and remain intact for use of present and future generations. The intrinsic and Aesthetic values benefits both Local communities around those Game parks, Tanzanians and visitor Tourists from across the world.

Vacation holiday activities that can be planned are wildlife viewing tours,walking safaris,bird watching,canoeing,game drives and wildlife safaris.

Tanzania is one of the unique destinations on the African continent that has yet to be discovered by many.With such a perfect Location, perched on the edge of the African continent, and facing the Indian Ocean, Tanzania’s weather and climate leaves nothing to be desired. Warm and sunny days are followed by cool and balmy nights.

Points of interests about Tanzania wildlife safaris.

African safaris will send you to National parks and game reserves for wildlife viewing tours. African safaris will enable you to see AFRICA BIG 5 - Elephants,Rhinocerous,Lion,Leopard,and Buffalo in Tanzania. Exceptional feature in Tanzania travel safaris is the great wilderbeest migration in Tanzania in Serengeti National Park. Other wild animals are Girrafes, antelopes,Zebras plus many other animals.

Thousands upon thousands of wildebeest that march in mindless unison on the annual migration through the Serengeti, perhaps? Or a family of elephants wading across the wide, muddy Rufiji/Tarangire River? What about a pride of well-fed lions sunbathing on the grassy floor of the majestic Ngorongoro Crater? Certainly, it is such images that tend to spring to mind when one thinks of Tanzania. And properly so!

Tanzania, truly, is a safari destination without peer. The statistics speak for themselves: an unparalleled one-quarter of its surface area has been set aside for conservation purposes, with the world-renowned Serengeti National Park and incomprehensibly vast Selous Game Reserve heading a rich mosaic of protected areas that collectively harbour an estimated 20 percent of Africa’s large mammal population.

Rising from the sandy shores of Lake Tanganyika, the forested Gombe Stream and Mahale Mountains National Parks vie with each other as the best place in the world to track wild chimpanzees. Closer to the coast, the isolated massifs of the underpublicised Eastern Arc Mountains have been dubbed the ‘African Galapagos’ in recognition of their wealth of endemic plants and animals. And Tanzania’s daunting natural variety is mirrored by a cultural diversity embracing 120 distinct tribes: from the iconic Maasai pastoralists of the Rift Valley, to the Arab-influenced Swahili of the coast, to the Hadzabe hunter-gatherers of Lake Eyasi.

Well, the one thing that does bind Tanzania’s diverse attractions is, of course, its people, who take justifiable pride in their deeply ingrained national mood of tolerance and peacefulness. Indeed, Tanzania, for all its ethnic diversity, is practically unique in Africa in having navigated a succession of modern political hurdles – the transformation from colonial dependency to independent nation, from socialist state to free-market economy, from mono-partyism to fully-fledged democracy - without ever experiencing sustained civil or ethnic unrest.

Tanzania has also, over the past 20 years, emerged from comparative obscurity to stand as one of Africa’s most dynamic and popular travel destinations: a land whose staggering natural variety is complemented by the innate hospitality of the people who live there.

Ecotourism is the best practice that will make environment remain intact, local people benefit and tourists enjoy the real African beauty in unspoiled status. Ecotourism will provide positive experiences for both visitor tourists and hosts. As a matter of raising awareness on importance of nature conservation to hosts and tourists, ecotourism accomplish the role. As a Tour Operator, we contribute to conservation.

There are more to hear,read,learn, discover or see about Tanzania. We welcome you to explore Tanzania through THE CLASSIC TOURS and SAFARIS CO.Ltd.

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