Behind Dakik

FOUNDED IN ARUSHA100% TANZANIAN-OWNED
Being from Tanzania is not the same as knowing it.We have climbed it, crossed it and lived it.
Dakik Expeditions was founded by Tanzanians who grew up on this land.Not visitors who fell in love with it, but people who were shaped by it.

Arusha, Tanzania

3°22′48″ S · 36°40′45″ E

CHAPTER I · HOW WE WORK

Three promises we don’t bend.

I

Our crew is paid fairly

Our porters are paid above the industry average, and every guide stays with us.

II

We answer to you, not to a lodge

We are tied to no lodge or camp, so every stay is chosen for you, not for a contract.

III

Private by default

Your trip is yours alone, planned from scratch around how you like to travel.

Rawan Dakik on Everest, with a line of climbers in the distance

CHAPTER II · THE FOUNDER

Rawan Dakik

Fourteen, on the roof of Africa.Twenty, on the roof of the world.Twenty-one, the first Tanzanian to stand on all seven.Then she came home to Arusha, and built Dakik.

The youngest African to complete the Seven Summits.

Photo: Gabriel Tarso

Seven continents. Seven summits.

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CHAPTER III · THE CO-FOUNDER

Zainab Dakik

Zainab is the reason every journey runs the way it does.She is the detail nobody sees but every guest feels:the care that turns a good trip into one that stays with you.

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Zainab Dakik, co-founder of Dakik Expeditions

CHAPTER IV · THE TEAM

They guided us as children.Now they guide you.

Most of our first guides showed us Tanzania when we were kids.They are not staff.They are family.

60+
PEOPLE IN THE FIELDGUIDES, COOKS AND PORTERS
100%
OF OUR GUIDES HAVE STAYEDSINCE THE DAY THEY JOINED
70%
OF GUESTS COME THROUGHSOMEONE WHO TRAVELLED WITH US
Dakik team at camp
Dakik guides on the mountain
Dakik crew

THE GUIDES

Some of the people you will meet.

Tariq, safari guide at Dakik Expeditions

SAFARI GUIDE · 10+ YEARS

Tariq

Tariq grew up inside Tanzania’s national parks.He knows when a pride is missing one of its own,and where a family will move next.Nobody taught him this.He learned it by watching, every day, for years.He reads the bush the way others read a map.

Babaluu, head guide on Kilimanjaro

HEAD GUIDE · KILIMANJARO

Babaluu

Over ten years leading Kilimanjaro climbs.Anyone who has climbed with him knows the smile.It never leaves his face,not in the cold, not on summit night.On the hardest night, that calm is everything.

Isaya, Maasai guide at Lake Natron

MAASAI GUIDE · LAKE NATRON

Isaya

Isaya is our Maasai expert at Lake Natron,and this land is his home.In the villages or on the land around them,he is the one who knows every path.With Isaya, you are not passing through.You are welcomed in.

Rawan DakikZainab Dakik

Meet the people behind your journey.

A free call with Rawan or Zainab, before anything is booked.

Let's talk about your Tanzania.

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