(This article was published on Fodor’s Travel)
Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is one of the most popular trekking destinations in the world with over 65,000 international tourists attempting to climb it in 2019. Like other famous tourist destinations, the pandemic has changed the level of tourism and infrastructures in the Kilimanjaro region within the past year. While many countries all over the world shut down their tourism in some way at one point or another, Tanzania has managed to remain open since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
As populations all over the world enter the vaccination phase, many are beginning to consider traveling internationally again. Tanzania, whose borders have remained open all this time with minimal COVID-19 requirements for entry, is likely to be high on many travelers’ lists. In light of the controversial approach that the Tanzanian government has taken to address the COVID-19 pandemic, such as minimizing the seriousness of the pandemic and the lack of solid reporting on the number of COVID-19 cases that the country has had to date, the question remains how safe is it for tourists to do a Kilimanjaro climb?
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