What food will be provided on the Mount Kilimanjaro?

As we know food has many purposes in our body especially it gives us energy and it provides nutrients to our body to be healthy and strong. Also there is emotional comfort in eating food that is tasty and enjoyable. In your trip taking time to sit down and eat together with your group and a lot of fun and relaxing makes you enjoy your holiday and forgot all your problems.

How does tour operator provide food to their clients?

The food is the source of being healthy and nutritious because of meals cooked fresh every day by your cookers either in hotel I mean before you start your trip or after starting the travel I mean when you’re at the camp or hut. The menus have been carefully designed to ensure that the food is delicious, easy to digest, and provides energy to the body which give climber the ability to climb until to summit at the top .These food including fresh vegetables, fruits, meat, nuts and snacks along the way, and also clean water.

And also in menu other food included is like rice, potatoes as well as meat. Fresh fruit and juice accompany every meal. Most morning breakfast also have a selection of hot drinks like instant coffee, tea and hot chocolate. You may want to bring some supplementary comfort foods, such as candy, gum, chocolate, health bars and powdered energy drinks.

Food and water are always needed during climbing trip, are especially important to your body when you’re at high altitude, but also water can help to alleviate the symptoms of altitude sickness .Altitude mountain sickness (AMS) is an illness that affects many people when they climb mountain Kilimanjaro and other mountain. This mountain disease most affects climbers that are climb at 5,895 meters on Kilimanjaro. It is seen normal to lose ones appetite a little at higher elevations. The high altitude increases your metabolism in your body. This means at mealtimes high up on the mountain you should eat more than two times because to climb mountain is among of hard work so when you have enough food and water in your body the energy is increased which could help you to trek well without getting tired. It's advised to eat more as you can to have a lot of energy for the achieving climb. And make sure that the foods you eat are easy digested.

In other tours they provide porridge as a breakfast all the day during morning followed by eggs, and hot drinks such as tea, coffee or hot chocolate. Climbers are asked to communicate with the guide as regards their appetites or they will tend to choose according to their appetite then the guides should provide much more food than needed by their clients. Lunch is normally packed by guides and porters that they will carry in your daypack. It normally consists of a egg, sandwiches, a chicken, fresh fruit and a soft drink like juice. In evening before the time of dinner coffee is provided to all climbers in order to remove tiredness and to get more energy with tea also is served with biscuits, peanuts and etc. Dinner begins with soup, followed by a main foods including chicken, meat, vegetable some cabbage, rice, potatoes, with fresh fruit. Breakfast includes tea, coffee, fresh milk, eggs, toast, porridge, bread, fruits, sausages and etc. next days with hot soups, bread, vegetables, fruits, salad, cookies, beef, chicken, fish, potatoes, rice.

Climbing a mountain is not the time to have a diet. Your body will need all three nutrient groups to make to summit Kilimanjaro very easier and faster. These foods that are easy to digest provide a quick source of energy while you are climbing. Proteins and healthy take longer to digest and provide sustained energy, aid in the body during your climbing time, you will be provided with breakfast, lunch and dinner each day spent on the mountain. The food which most advised to be used on mountain climbing are carbohydrate foods because are mostly easily to be digested. Which are rice, potatoes and pasta Fruits and vegetables which should be eaten at every meal. Meat is served on the mountain but not in large quantities because it is not easily digestible at high altitude so it should not be used at every meal.

The team should supply the fresh food when climbing in order to make clients satisfied and enjoy. This could make the clients to remember good service which they get from such company and for another time they will remember about amazing service they get then they will also want to book on the same company. Water also carrying by porters but everyone should have for his own. Water is provided only at the campsites so you need to carry enough water, usually about 3 liters, to stay hydrated while you climb.

Humans cannot survive without food but not food only and water but other foods are like addition like fruits, and some supplementary foods like candy, popcorn and so on. And the way human eat is most different because it is depending on type of person or the activities he/she do. Like most woman are eating very small foods this is different to men but not all they eat a lot of food it does not matter he does a hard work or not. Another is depending his activities like if it is hard work person feed a lot of food than when he does not do any activities. Although the activities of climbing mountain is hard work so tours companies prepare a lot of food in order to make food three times including morning, afternoon, and at night also the food should be safe prepared by professional cookers.

There are many tours company which provide service of tourism activities but every company has its own client caring service it means how they care the customers from outside east Africa, east Africa and also inside Tanzania itself but there are best tours operator which their service are normally efficiently to all parts of tour guide activities. Mostly in providing food to client they arrange well their timetable in the issue of meal the menu is arranged well as a customer can be satisfied. These companies including Africa natural tour, burigi chato tour, Tanzania safari tour and other best companies in Kilimanjaro and Arusha in Tanzania.