Kilimanjaro – A Photographic Journey to the Roof of Africa

Writer and editor Michel Moushabeck together with his wife, travel photographer Hiltrud Schulz have climbed Kilimanjaro with ZARA Tours. The result is the book “Kilimanjaro – A Photographic Journey to the Roof of Africa”, a spectacular collection of more than 200 full-colour images and narrative that offer a detailed glimpse into the unique beauty and rhythm of Africa’s natural wonder, its history, people and ecology.

Published at Interlink Publishing.

Impressive photos of Kilimanjaro and safari

Our customers Thomas Eigenheer, Cuno Flück and Markus Wieland from Switzerland have published some impressive photos of their Kilimanjaro climb along the Marangu Route: http://www.thomas.eigenheer.ch/reisen/kilimanjaro.htm and also professional animal, landscape and people pictures of their safari including the Usambara Mountains, Tarangire National Park, Lake Manyara, a Massai village, Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater and Zanzibar: http://www.thomas.eigenheer.ch/reisen/tansania.htm. Thanks a lot to Thomas, Cuno and Markus!

The beauty side of Tanzania

“The beauty side of Tanzania” is our new range of itineraries focussing on cultural encounters, the close-up discovery of natural wonders, and doing activities “other” than just the typical National Park game drive safari. The itineraries are ideal for those travellers who want to see Tanzania in a multifaceted way and learn more about the country than the average tourist. Led by local guides, they are also perfect for repeat visitors to Africa.

However, our 8 days package, besides visiting a Chagga village on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, an “authentic” Massai village which is not set up for tourism purposes, and the farming areas of Mtu Wa Mbu, includes some game drives in Tanzania’s most stunning National Parks, because it would simply be a real pity if you would leave the country without having visited them.

The two 5 days itineraries, with one including hiking in the Usambara Mountains, and the other one including activities of historical visits and natural exploration along the Dar-es-Salaam/Bagamoyo coast area, are perfect if you are short in time or can be added to any other safari itinerary or mountain climb.

See the full itineraries here.

Madaraka Nyerere about climbing Kilimanjaro

End of August 2008, Madaraka Nyerere, son of Julius Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania, was doing a fundraising climb of Mount Kilimanjaro with ZARA. In the following video which was recorded in Springlands Hotel, he is talking about his experiences of the challenging climb.  

ZARA travel article in Canadian World Traveller magazine

Travel writer Michael Morcos has published an article about his memorable tour through Tanzania with ZARA Tanzania Adventures in the Summer 2008 Issue of Canadian World Traveller. His trip included Arusha National Park, Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro Crater, the Serengeti and the area around Kilimanjaro.
You can read the article here.

Karibu Tanzania

The annual Karibu travel and tourism trade show in Arusha is the leading travel trade event in East Africa. Originally, the idea was to promote Tanzania, but during the last years, the show has considerably grown from a local travel event to a serious industry meeting, attracting more than 200 exhibitors from many East African and overseas countries in June 2008.

It is clear that ZARA as a leading Tanzanian safari and Kilimanjaro trekking operator cannot miss the opportunity to present their innovative socially and environmentally sustainable travel products on this show. The picture above shows this year’s ZARA stand with a demonstration of our brand new Kilimanjaro climbing camping equipment.

Other trade shows ZARA usually participates include World Travel Market in London (each November), ITB in Berlin (in March), FITUR in Madrid (February),  International Tourism and Travel Show Montreal (October) and many others. If you want to have a chat with a ZARA representative in your country – contact us (zara@zaratours.com) and ask us which shows we are going to attend this year. We are looking forward to meeting you there!

http://www.karibufair.com

Tanzanian animal and landscape photos of photographer Paul Schulte

German photographer Paul Schulte has been on safari with ZARA Tanzania Adventures twice. He states that without ZARA guides James and Chitanda he wouldn’t have got such nice animal close-ups. In 2011 he will do his next ZARA photo tip with Christina. We thank Paul and Christina for submitting us their link!

You can see Paul’s animal pictures here and his stunning panoramic landscape photos of Tanzanian National Parks here.

Clean Kilimanjaro 2008 – Rongai and Marangu!

Twice every year, the ZARA Kilimanjaro guides ascend the mountain on a special trip, clearing the routes from litter that irresponsible hikers have left behind. Every time, there are also international volunteers who help making the Kilimanjaro National Park be a cleaner and more beautiful place. The next “Clean Kilimanjaro Trip” will take place from May 10th to May 15th. You can still join! To thank you, ZARA offers this trip at a special discounted rate of US$ 1,100 per person. The cleaning trip will go up the mountain on the Rongai Route and return on the Marangu Route, so the both routes will actually be cleaned (please note that we have changed the route as against our previous announcement)!

ZARA Kilimanjaro climb report (in German)

Austrian consumer newspaper “Ihr Einkauf” chief editor Sana Brauner faced the challenge to climb Mount Kilimanjaro with ZARA Tours in February this year. And as she is chief editor, it was obvious that she made her experiences into a travel report for her newspaper! The online version of the report (in German) which includes beautiful scenic photos can be read and seen here.

Steve Howard: A lot of great safari and Kilimanjaro pictures

Our customer Steve Howard has uploaded many very good pictures of his ZARA Kilimanjaro climb and safari to Picasa. You can see them here.