"The Gateway To Africa's Wildlife"

Kilimanjaro International Airport is the second international airport of Tanzania. It serves the Kilimanjaro area including the cities of Arusha and Moshi near Mount Kilimanjaro, and the international tourism industry based on Mount Kilimanjaro, Arusha National, Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti National Park. The airport styles itself as the "The Gateway to Africa's Wildlife heritage".

Many international visitors also go to national parks in Kenya, to the Indian Ocean coast and islands such as Zanzibar, and to Lake Victoria, reflected in the routes of connecting flights. The airport can handle aircraft up to Boeing 747s.

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 Mount Kilimanjaro:

Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa and fourth of the Seven summits. with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi and Shira, is an inactive strato volcano in north-eastern Tanzania and the highest mountain in Africa at 5,895 metres or 19,341 feet (the Uhuru Peak). Mount Kilimanjaro is considered to be the tallest freestanding mountain in the world, rising 4600m (15,100 feet) from the base.

The exact meaning and origin of the name Kilimanjaro is unknown. It is thought to be a combination of the Swahili word Kilima (meaning "mountain") and the Kichaga word Njaro, loosely translated as "whiteness:, giving the name White Mountain. The name Kibo in Kichaga means "spotted" and refers to rocks seen on snowfields. The Swahili word Uhuru translates as "freedom", a name given to commemorate Tanzanian Independence from Great Britain in 1961.

 Ngorongoro Conservation Area:

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area or NCA is a conservation area situated 180km(112 miles) west of Arusha in the crater highlands area in Tanzania. The crater has a population of approximately 25,000 large animals, largely ungulates along with reputedly the highest density of mammalian predators in Africa, lives in the crater. Large Animals in the crater include the Black rhinoceros, the hippopotamus which is very uncommon in the area. There are so many ungulates : The wildebeest (7,000 estimated in 1994), the Zebra(4,000), the eland, and Grant's and Thompson Gazelles (3,000).

Serengeti National Park:

The Serengeti National Park is a large national park in Serengeti area, Tanzania. It is the most famous for its annual migration of over one million and a half white bearded(or blinded) wildebeest and 200,000 zebra.

As well as the migration of ungulates, the park is well known for its healthy stock of other resident wildlife, The particularly the "Big Five", named for the five most prized trophies taken by the hunters. Lions,Leopard, Elephant Black Rhinoceros and African Buffalo

The park also support many further species, including Cheetah, Thomson's and Grants gazelle, topi, eland, waterbuck, hyena, baboon, impala, African wild dog and giraffe. The park also boasts about 500 birds species, including Ostrich,  secretary bird, kori bustard, crowned crane and marabou stork

Whilst Northern Tanzania has proven to be a consistently peaceful region, it is a well known fact that terrorist with bad intentions will look for a soft target to attack, wherever it may be. This makes Kilimanjaro International Airport to take all necessary precautions to ensure safety and security prevails at the airport and the vicinity.

The airport is completely surrounded by a !$ kilometers perimeter fence that is patrolled on regular and random intervals by both aviation security personnel and members of the Tanzanian Police Force. Both these organizations work in close co-operation to ensure complete security.

Closer into the airport all access points are controlled by both aviation and by the police. On top of this, a 24hr CCTV monitors these points from a central security office.

Passengers departing from Kilimanjaro International Airport are dropped off right outside the Check-In area. Here they are processed quickly and, thoroughly, through the security checkpoint.

Check-In is located in a spacious hall with well-marked check-In desks. Increasing the number of check-in desks has reduced queuing time. In the departure hall one will find a variety of shops for gifts and souvenirs, restaurants, bar and coffee shops, this offers relaxing atmosphere as you wait to board your flight. Passengers then move through a final security check and Immigration departure protocols before entering the boarding gate.

Passengers will be kept informed by a modern PA and flight information display system as to flight departures and will be escorted to the aircraft once it is ready for them.

Kilimanjaro International Airport has proved popular with passengers as it allows them to move with a lot of ease from one stage to the  next. The simple layout of the airport means that passengers can go from arrival to sitting in the departure lounge in a matter of minutes.

Passengers arriving at Kilimanjaro International Airport will find an efficient friendly and trouble free entry.

Passengers are escorted off the aircraft and taken directly to the arrival halls. Here they will first be processed through Tanzanian immigration, where there is multiple arrival desks which allow the immigration formalities to be concluded with minimum delay.

Passengers will then immediately find themselves in the baggage reclaim area. Currently this has two conveyor belt systems which are within 200m from the apron and, therefore, baggage waiting time is minimal.

Finally passengers moves out of the Arrivals area and straight out into the greeting area where they can link up with party awaiting them. Arrivals have a separate parking area and passengers can move very quickly into their onward transport.