24th TERRA Festival - KILIMANJARO - MOUNTAIN OF DREAMS

KILIMANJARO — MOUNTAIN OF DREAMS

It will be a story about mountains, people and emotions.

A trip to Kilimanjaro is like a hot coffee with ice cream. From the vast, flat and sun-warmed savannah grows a powerful volcano, blanketed with snow. The slopes of the mountain are covered with woody ferns, lobelia and African starlings as in the Jurassic forest. With each meter we ascend to the harsh kingdom of glaciers still preserved there to finally stand at the very top of the African continent (5896 m above sea level).

The silhouette of Kilimanjaro can be seen most beautifully from the nearby volcano Mt Meru (4566 m above sea level), which is worth entering earlier to gain altitude acclimatization.

Kilimanjaro attracts thousands of people every year with the magic of Africa's highest peak. For some it is another trekking destination, for others it is quite a challenge, a mountain road to the fulfillment of a dream, a stepping stone from problems, a hope for change. When climbing to the top, tourists often take with them luggage of various dreams and emotions. For these emotions and for the wonderful team of guides and porters who surround tourists with caring care and comfort, I returned to Kilimanjaro.

Katarzyna and Andrzej Mazurkiewicz

Guides of cognitive and trekking expeditions, Andrew photographs, Kasia likes to tell about the world and people during expeditions and slideshows. Their passion for travel has become their way of life. They set off from the Tatra trails in 1988 to the Indian Himalayas, where they constantly return during private trips and with tourists. They made exploratory expeditions to the Chersky Mountains and Suntar Khayat in Yakutia. Since 1994, they have been running the company Terra Incognita, within which they have organized about 300 original cognitive and trekking expeditions for small groups (India, Nepal, Tibet, Siberia, Mongolia, Iran, Turkey, Tanzania, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan), present slide shows of their travels and organize the TERRA festival. They are the authors of the trekking guide “Indian Himalayas”, the album “Himalayas - the trail of caravans and pilgrims” and several photo exhibitions.

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