Kilimanjaro Safaris (group)

**Kilimanjaro Safaris** is the titular organization which operated the safaris in the attraction *Kilimanjaro Safaris* in *Disney's Animal Kingdom*.

## Description

Kilimanjaro Safaris is a safari-company in East Africa. While it predominately lead tours via jeep through Africa's ecosystems, it also provided flights overtop of their namesake Mount Kilimanjaro.

### Company Establishments

* **Arusha**: An establishment which Kilimanjaro Safaris held in Tanzania, nearby Mt. Kilimanjaro. It is likely that this is where Kilimanjaro Safaris was founded or prominently established given its near vicinity to the mountain.
* **Harambe**: Harambe has been a place of operation for Kilimanjaro Safaris since the late 19th/early 20th century; the company having worked there since before the port gained its freedom. After Harambe gained its liberty in the 1960s, it continued to host Kilimanjaro Safaris who worked in correlation with the port's wildlife conservation initiatives. They worked out of a basecamp adjacent to the Harambe Wildlife Reserve and the British safari outpost known as the Tusker House.
* **Mombassa**: An establishment within the coastal city of Mombassa in Kenya along the Indian Ocean.
* **Nairobi**: An establishment within Kenya's capital city of Nairobi.

## History

Kilimanjaro Safaris is a safari company which was established at some point prior to the late 19th/early 20th century. It took its name and logo from Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and lead expeditions through the wilderness of East Africa. By the late 20th century it also held high conservation ideals and its employees would regularly work to prevent poaching and to hunt poachers in the areas where they operated.

## Appearances and allusions

### Kilimanjaro Safaris

In this attraction, guests are taken on a tour of the Harambe Wildlife Reserve in the company's jeep, the SIMBA-1. In the original incarnation of the attraction, the jeep happened upon the mutilated corpse of the mother elephant, "Big Red" who was killed for her ivory by poachers that made off with her child, "Little Red". The SIMBA-1 then proceeded to team up with the reserve's warden and resident aviator Wilson Matua to hunt down the poachers and save Little Red. The SIMBA-1 succeeded in saving the baby elephant but were still not able to save Big Red leading the driver to entrust its passengers in participating within conservation efforts to protect animals from big-game hunters.

### Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar

On the walls of this bar is a photograph of a Safari including Trader Sam departing from Harambe with an elephant for transportation. Additionally when closely observed, the elephant's howdah is the logo for the Kilimanjaro Safaris company on it.

### Wilderness Explorers

Harambe holds outposts for the *Wilderness Explorers* scouting organization (an entity from Up) of which its reserves hold ideals of ecological conservation with. Kilimanjaro Safaris is shown to work in conjunction with the group and hold similar agendas to one another. Notably in the guidebook of the Explorers is the Safari Badge which has guests taking a safari from Kilimanjaro Safaris and writing the name of the jeep SIMBA-1. It also mentions Harambe Wildlife Reserve by name and has participants document the animals which they observed.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2017/08/28/review-dinner-at-tusker-house-in-disneys-animal-kingdom/
2. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/BZcEgKllDSx/