Tipping in Rwenzori
Tipping in Rwenzori, many clients ask if tipping is a must on an African trip. Tipping is a token of appreciation given to the service provider in turn of appreciating and motivating them. Tipping in Rwenzori is a culture and very normal to appreciate the team you trek with depending on the days and type of trek. Whether you are a solo traveler or group tours, it’s recommended after the Rwenzori trip to give tips to the guides, porters and a cook.
Sometimes there are trekkers who come to mount Rwenzori with heavy gadgets like cameras for photo trips, they require special porters to carry them safe.
What currency is recommended for Tipping in Rwenzori?
When tipping in Rwenzori consider to have Uganda shillings, US dollars, Euros or pounds. Tipping your team it does not mean that you are too rich but a culture to appreciate the guides, porters and cooks who makes your Rwenzori trek a memorable one. Tipping also helps the team to supplement on their salaries; just know you create happiness and memories when you give a tip on your mount Rwenzori trek.
The people living around the mount Rwenzori slopes are the ones that work as guides, porters and cooks, when you tip this team on your Rwenzori trek you support their lives. Take note that when these people are not supported financially, they start practicing poaching, cutting down trees for timber in order to earn a living hence hindering sustainable tourism.
Currency in years that is allowed in Uganda.
When travelling to Uganda for your Rwenzori Mountain trek, make sure you move with currency years starting from 2009 to date. The reason behind that is dollars dated 2009 to date still have visible security features and are hard to counterfeit. In Uganda and other East African countries, dollar, Euro and pound notes that are torn, faded or having ink or wrinkle are always rejected.
When is the appropriate time to do Tipping in Rwenzori?
Tipping in Rwenzori is done at the end of the trip and at the last camp. After arriving at the last camp, you give tips to the guides, porters, cook and rangers and share with them words of appreciation. At that moment if you have any thing to donate to them you donate items like jackets, sleeping bag and any hiking equipment.
In one way or another mount Rwenzori guides and porters are not paid enough wages according to the work they do and Rwenzori is not like a lodge or a restaurant where there is always maybe a tip box that they open after a week to share those tips from the clients.
how to tip after a group tour in Rwenzori.
After a group tour of trekking in Rwenzori, the tips are given to the team leader who hands the tips to the chief guide and chief porter to share with the rest of their colleagues.
Tipping in Rwenzori for every category (range)
Tipping in Rwenzori
Tipping in Rwenzori varies from each category, Guides, porters, cooks for example guides from $15-$20 per day, porters from $10-$15 per day and $7-$10 per day.
Culture of tipping
Tipping guides, porters, cooks on your trip in mount Rwenzori is considered a culture to appreciate and motivate the team depending on whatever amount you can avoid to give out. Tipping is not only for people coming from North America or from wealth European countries but should be for every one visiting Africa.
When travelling to African countries, always carry some cash with you for tipping the guides, porters, waiters, waitresses and safari drivers. There is no small or big amount mandatory to tip, but give tips according to your heart and appreciation.
