Kilimanjaro Adventure Travel

Cambridge, Massachusetts · 1995–2003

Kilimanjaro Adventure Travel was founded in 1995 as one of the first travel specialists on the Internet to focus exclusively on Africa. From an office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it arranged safaris in East Africa through a network of established local operators. It also published free guides for travelers planning their first trip to the region.

What the site offered

• Safaris and bookings: wildlife safaris, mountain gorilla treks, climbs of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, white-water rafting, and walking safaris in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zaire, arranged with about a dozen tour operators and Airkenya.
• Safari and travel guides: national park guides, a field guide to roughly thirty East African species, and practical advice on seasons, health and what to pack.
• Bookstore: recommended maps, field guides, travel writing and children's books on East Africa.
• Gorilla conservation: a share of profits went to gorilla and wildlife protection organizations. The site hosted a public Gorilla Help Site and an English-language archive of the Gorilla Journal of Berggorilla & Regenwald Direkthilfe, covering 1995 to 2000.

Kilimanjaro Adventure Travel stopped taking new bookings in the early 2000s. The site stayed online for several years afterward as a public resource on African safaris, wildlife and mountain gorillas.

About this domain

The kilimanjaro.com domain has been held continuously by the same owner since 1995. This page keeps a permanent record of what the site was and what it did.