Are you heading for a primate trekking adventure or mountaineering hiking adventure? Then at One More Adventure Safaris, we shall recommend you to take a porter, or automatically design a tour for you, including a trekking porter.
Who are the trekking porters?
Trekking porters are members of the local community, living around the parks, who have been carefully selected and entrusted by the park office to provide hand assistance to clients who would need a second hand assistance with their gadgets, equipment, or even hand support during hiking/ trekking. And by doing so, they earn a living, feed their family and feel the impact of tourism in their society, in a long run, you promote conservation, and sustainability, thus responsible tourism, which is our main goal at One More Adventure Safaris, to be a responsible tour operator.
While you are welcome to carry your own gear, the local porters stand ready to help and your money goes directly into an economy that not only relies on it, but secondarily encourages the conservation of the land. In other words, think of the guides and porters as your way to positively contribute to a sub-Saharan economy, while encouraging preservation of this world class resource.
The porters are members of the local community, whose earning comes from trekking alongside with you, through providing all sorts of rendered assistance that you will need, as you go along with the hiking/ trekking adventure. Let it be the hiking trek or the primate trekking safari, you will need their assistance at one point. The trek is not easy but the ‘push me, pull me porters’ are amazing in ensuring you get to the top, bottom and back again. Make sure you use them. Even if you don’t want them to carry anything. Their names go on a roster and if you don’t use a porter he misses out on income and has to wait until his next roster opportunity. Using them helps the community and the gorillas.
On a mountain hiking adventure for example Mount Rwenzori, even if you do not hire a porter, know that porters will still be part of your trekking team. While each of the eight of you hire a porter, our entire team of porters are numbered. These extra porters brought food from hut to hut along with cooking supplies, utensils, toilet paper, etc.
However, to conquer the gorilla trekking at ease, you will need to be in a good body shape. Physical fitness is highly recommended. You will need pre-gorilla trekking home fitness training prior to your travel, and as well as good gorilla trekking boots, with shoe gaiters and good socks, to make your gorilla trekking very comfortable.
Let us create a difference together! Hire a porter, support a local community, feed a family, at the end, we are conserving our environment!
Speak to our team of consultants, at One More Adventure Safaris, and have a porter arranged on your primate or mountaineering safaris with us.
