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Culture Posts. For over 4 decades Tusker has led thousands of intrepid travelers on awe-inspiring adventures around the world. Tusker’s fully supported treks allow you to fire up your passion for adventure in faraway places.
Meet Your Kilimanjaro Guide: Simon Minja
As a boy growing up at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, Simon Minja cut grass for his father’s cows, but knew he had a higher calling. He peered skyward to the Kibo summit hoping to join his dad atop the mountain one day…
Kilimanjaro: Guiding the Guides
Nobody climbs Mt. Kilimanjaro alone. Not for a long time. And the most important people on your team should be your guides…
11 Things You Will Only Understand if You’ve Been There
Most of us like to do our travel homework by reading guidebooks; watching videos and trolling the Internet for trekking trip intel. That’s well and good, but…
MONGOLIA ON HORSEBACK
Travelers have the option of hiking or riding a horse (or both), and many Tusker tribe members opt to ride like Mongol nomads.
MONGOLIA’S EAGLE HUNTERS
Hunting with eagles started before Genghis Khan’s time, and Mongolia remains strongly tied to its primordial past.
