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Our Guides

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Our guides

The single biggest variable in a safari is who is driving. Here is how ours are trained, licensed and paid.

The one thing that decides your trip

A guide, not a driver

Tanzania distinguishes clearly between a driver with a permit and a licensed guide. Guiding licences are issued through TANAPA, and most professional guides here train at the College of African Wildlife Management at Mweka, near Moshi — the oldest wildlife college in Africa, founded in 1963.

Our guides are salaried employees, not day hires. That sounds like an HR detail and it is not: a guide paid by the day has an incentive to finish early, and a guide who might not work next week has no reason to invest in learning what you care about.

We match the guide to the party where we can — big cats, birds, photography, geology, culture, or simply being good with children. Tell us at booking and we will do our best.

Our full roster, with training and specialisms. Replace every entry below with your real guides — names, years in the field, licence numbers, languages and specialisms. Delete any you do not have.

G Guide nameHead guide years in the field · languages +

Biography to supply. A short paragraph on how they came to guiding and what they are best at. This is the section guests read most closely.

TANAPA licensedMweka trainedspecialismfirst aid cert.
G Guide nameSenior guide years in the field · languages +

Biography to supply.

TANAPA licensedspecialismfirst aid cert.
G Guide nameGuide years in the field · languages +

Biography to supply.

TANAPA licensedspecialism
G Guide nameGuide · walking qualified years in the field · languages +

Biography to supply.

TANAPA licensedWalking safari qualifiedspecialism
G Guide nameMountain guide years in the field · languages +

Biography to supply. On Kilimanjaro the head guide carries responsibility for the health of the whole group, takes pulse-oximeter readings twice daily, and has the authority to turn any climber back.

Kilimanjaro licensedWilderness first respondersummits led

Ask who is guiding you.

Ask us, and ask anyone else you are considering. An operator who cannot tell you the name of your guide two weeks before you travel has not assigned one.

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