Kilimanjaro Mountain is the highest
mountain peak in Tanzania. Climbing this mountain peak is once in a life time
opportunity. You cannot waste this opportunity by taking wrong decisions or by
not doing optimum use of the available resources. Every tourist has some budget
when they step out of the house for a vacation. Like any other destination
climbing Kilimanjaro has its expenses. The whole idea of this blog is to devise
a formula to budget Kilimanjaro climbing and to get a rough figure of expenses
involved.
You cannot climb Kilimanjaro Mountains
without a tour operator. Since any local citizen of Tanzania can get himself
registered as a tour operator, selecting a correct tour operator is a vital
decision. While selecting the tour operator you should be clear with your
preferences. Whether you actually want to climb the mountain peak and reach to
the top or you are just doing a casual trekking holiday. Your safety is also a
very important issue. Some cheap low budget tour operator claims to guide you
through the mountain climbing at a very low price. But you should always check
their past record of safety and success. Some overpriced operators definitely
provide safety and good success rate. But if budget is set then always search
for middle price operator with good record.
Other expenses for climbing Kilimanjaro can
be as follows
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Flying to Kilimanjaro. You can
take a flight to Nairobi and then a connecting flight to Kilimanjaro. Bus
service from Nairobi to Kilimanjaro is also available.
·
To take the visa for Tanzania
you need to pay a fixed amount.
·
Depending on the number of days
of trekking budget of the trip is affected. It can range between 5 days to 10
days. Running expenses to perform all the basic tasks in these days are
counted.
·
You need to buy certain
vaccinations like yellow fever, hep A, malaria tablets etc for the trekking.
·
For climbing you will need
special clothes and equipments which can be provided by the tour operator on
additional charges or can be purchased.
·
Miscellaneous expenses.
