Kambona Mollel is the founder and director of Africa VIP Travel Ltd. He is a seasoned wildlife safari guide of Tanzania. He has taken numerous groups out on walking safaris as well as climbing safaris on Mt Kenya, Mt. Meru and Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Kambona has climbed Kilimanjaro over 100 times, leading groups to the "roof of African" at 19,340 feet. His philosophy of treating everyone as a VIP has gained him great success on getting climbers to the summit of Kilimanjaro safely.
Over the last decade Kambona has taken advanced training in tour guiding, wilderness emergency medicine and natural history. He is certified as a Wilderness First Responder and has helped instruct classes on emergency procedures.
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"The most unusual animals that I have seen on
Mt. Kilimanjaro, are the wild dogs of Africa."
"We also have endless birding on Kilimanjaro
With over 1,000 bird species
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Kambona, A native Maasai
Being a native Maasai, Kambona was born in Maasai-land. While growing up, his father allowed him to attend primary and secondary schools giving him a chance to move beyond his native Maa culture. Kambona is trilingual; he speaks fluent Maasai, Swahili and English.
Gregarious by nature, Kambona enjoys sharing his knowledge about the unrivaled flora and fauna of Africa. He has countless stories to share about living with nature and Maasai culture. He is also well versed in the history and geography of Tanzanian sites such as Zanzibar, Bagamoyo, Kilwa-Kivinje, Kilwa-Masoko and Amboni Cave Tanga.
In his spare time, Kambona's interests are varied enjoying sports, music, movies and reading. Before suffering a knee injury, Kambona was a world-class marathon runner preparing for the Olympics.
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Horace Nassary brings a tremendous depth of experience to Africa VIP Travel LTD. Born in Arusha in 1949, he displayed a fascination with wildlife from an early age; securing a diploma in tourism and wildlife management by the time he was 21.
He joined the Tanzanian National Parks Service and quickly shot to the top, serving as a senior warden in many of Tanzania's most important National Parks, including the Serengeti, Kilimanjaro, Katavi and Ruaha. During these years Horace played a vital role in Park Planning at a time when the Southern Parks in particular were experiencing their first flush of visitors. This
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inspired his initial interest in the safari tourism sector within which he has gone on to become a major player.
Working for Ker & Downey as a senior guide Horace was often called upon to lead safaris for their major clients. As well as WWF's Members tours he has guided their top officials and, by specific requests numerous zoological society groups from Australia and the United States.
Recognizing earlier than most that the future of Tanzania's wildlife ultimately would lie with those communities living on the peripheries of its wildlife reserves he became involved in developing a series of wildlife interpretative seminars. These then toured local villages, impressing on them the real long-term value of the resource that was sitting on their doorstep. As an extension of this Horace has recently set up a school training budding driver-guides in the finer points of safari guiding.
With the wealth of experience from 26 years working in East African National Parks Horace is great value on safari. He has a wonderful sense of humor and has a great talent as a raconteur. He has many fans around the world and we are fortunate that he has agreed to join Africa VIP Travel LTD.
Ever the poet Horace describes Tanzania as "a place on earth where it is still the morning of life, where nature's greatest herds still run free in the wilderness."
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MOUNTAIN GUIDES
Clemence Ignas Mtui was born on the slope of Mount Kilimanjaro; he is one of the 7 children of Ignas Mtui. He attended his education at Mbahe Marangu and Kilombero on the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro and Kibaya Primary School in Naberera further south of Kilimanjaro on the Maasai-land.
Clemence became attached to nature, people and the environment, which led to taking appropriate couse work. He traveled in East Africa working at different jobs to gain an appreciation of different cultures and the lifestyles of other tribes.
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town and at Mount Meru Hotel as a barman in Arusha city. He also worked in Kenya and Tanzania as a businessman, but he realized that was not his career, so he chose to back to school.
He attended the College of Tourism in Dar es Salaam and Mount Kilimanjaro guide training which was contacted by Kilimanjaro National Park Management, before becoming a chief guide for Kilimanjaro.
He continued with his training by going to Professional Tour Guide School in Arusha City, and a Tourism Communication Skills program offered by Tanzania National Park and the Irish Embassy for Tanzania. He also attended training at NOLS, the National Outdoor Leadership School on Mount Kenya in Kenya and Mount Rwenzori in Uganda. He studied fauna and flora and took a special guiding course at Mweka Wildlife College in Tanzania in courses offered by UNDP and Mweka Wildlife College. In his spare time Clemence loves to travel, reading books and going to the cinema. When he is guiding he loves to share his stories and experience with people of different ages.
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Leonard Solomon Mollel was born and raised in the Arusha region on the slopes of mount Meru. His heritage is of two tribes Maasai and Chagga. His educational background is in a variety of areas including Arusha secondary school certificate awarded in '0' level. He gained an advanced level certificate in Moshi and then attended a year course in tour guiding where he was awarded a certificate in tour guiding and wildlife knowledge. Leonard also became a certified wilderness first responder in 2007, and recertifies every two years.
Leonard had a childhood dream of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro when his father worked as park ranger in Mount Kilimanjaro National Park. He fulfilled his dream in
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2001 by summiting Kilimanjaro, and since then has guided more than 100 times to the summit. He has leaded various groups from different ages and nationalities. Leonard is a gifted and expert coach during his guiding, encouraging all to be able to make it to the summit. His friendliness and willing to share his knowledge of culture and wildlife are endearing to all make the trek.
In his spare time, Leonard enjoys movies, reading books and newspapers, sports such as soccer (football), bike rides and socializing with friends.
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Godfrey Obedi was born on the foot of Mount Meru near Arusha city. He is from the Maasai tribe and is one of four children. Godfrey was educated at lboru Primary School and then at lboru Secondary School. While going to school he developed a sincere love of nature, culture, fauna and flora. Arusha is a starting point for tourism in Tanzania; Godfrey had always been attracted to the tourism sector and started his career working as a porter for six years on Mount Kilimanjaro. He then took several courses, including mountain guiding for Kilimanjaro National Park and First Aid. He has been a chief mountain guide on Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru, the second highest peak in Tanzania and the fourth highest in Africa.
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His hobbies include hiking, biking and singing. When he guides he loves to share his stories about people, culture and those he has learned from most like his grandparents.
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SAFARI GUIDES
Athuman Madege Athuman was born in 1978 and was brought up in Dodoma in at Manyoni Barabara ya sita.
He attended Langasani Primary School, Tabora Boys High School and Mount Meru College of Tourism.
Athuman has worked as a guide for numerous years. He is fluent in Spanish and English. He is versed in the northern circuit of Arusha and Kilimanjaro as well as the Western Circuit of Ngorongoro, Manyara, Tarangire and Serengeti and the Southern of Selu, Ruaha and Mikumi.
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His major interests are animal behavior and birding. He is known for his charming smile and sense of humor as he shares his knowledge with his guests.
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Lawrence Mtwanga is from the Chagga tribe. He was born in 1980 at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro. He grew up in the land of Kilimanjaro and adopted all cultures and traditions. He started primary school at Majengo in 1990 and completed in 1996. He went to Mawenzi Secondary School from 1997 to 2002. He also has taken courses in first aid, mechanics, drivers education, and tour guiding.
Lawrence has guided wildlife safaris in East Africa and is familiar with the national parks. He specializes in walking safaris including the northern circuit. Being organized, he helps in scheduling the safaris from beginning to end.
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Lawrence enjoys lively conversations, music, and golf. He is fluent in Spanish, Chagga, Kiswahili and English.
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