Mount Meru Tour Guides Training

Courses

At Mount Meru Tour Guide Training open school, we pride ourselves on offering outstanding course with great success in creating, knowledgeable, enthusiastic, genuine and ethical guides who are committed to promote conservation and who genuinely want a different in the field guiding industry.

Our Course and experiences are focused greatly at all future exceptional Filed Guides, Nature enthusiasts, conservationist and wildlife warriors, if you have a dream and passion for nature and want to learn more, we have a diverse numbers and numbers of experiences that will suit your demands.

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These career-oriented course can ensure you an excellent start to your carrier in the school and Guiding Industry Mount Meru Tour Guides Training can help you achieve your guiding skills and qualifications in the most magnificent and unmatched experience available these professional skills and recognized qualification will open the doors to your guiding career elsewhere in Africa.

This could be an amazing opportunity for all of you, that want to experience behind the since, but not necessarily do the qualification.  Come experience   the life of a trainee filed Guide, Game drives, Bush walks, unrealistic experience of approaching BIG5, Magic sunrise, identifying bird calls and spectacular breathtaking sunset.

How do I know if the Mount Meru Tour Guides, experience is for me?

  • You have a passion for learning more about our environment and wildlife as well as a potential. Career with the hospitality industry.
  • You are looking for a change in your lifestyle it is never too late to live the life you have always imagined.
  • You may not specifically want a career as a guide, but want to learn more about the environment, conservation, wildlife and co-existence between people and wildlife.
  • You are enthusiastic about saving our planet and being a conservation.
  • You are over 18 years old.
  • These courses require your dedication and hard work – what you put in, is what you get out.

FILED GUIDE (TOUR GUIDES)

Behavior guide to African herbivores

  1. Introduction to Animal behavior (Ethology)
  2. Introduction to Antelopes, Other Ruminants
  3. Even- toed ungulates and Non-Ruminants
  4. Odd toed angulated and Non- Ruminants
  5. Near ungulates

BEHAVIOR GUIDE TO AFRICAN CARNIVORES

  1. Introduction to carnivores
  2. Cats and their Relatives
  • Genets, civets and Mongooses
  1. Hyena and ………….
  2. Jackals, wilddogs and Forexs
  3. Predators and scavengers
  • Diurnal nocturnal and Crepuscular
  • Weasels, Ratel, zorrilla and Otters
  1. Survival adaptations of

MOUNTAIN GUIDING

Introduction to mountain guiding

  • Camping equipment
  • Camp craft and outdoor cooking
  • Hiking skills
  • Route planning
  • Map reading
  • Mountain weather and mountain hazards,
  • Mountaineering First Aids
  • Emergency Procedures
  • Mountain Leadership Guide.

Entomology (Insects) Athropod.

  • An introduction to Arthropods
  • Respiration of insects
  • inset life cycles
  • Moults
  • Insect lifespan and stages
  • communication
  • defense mechanism
  • Arachnids- spiders, scorpions
  • Millipedes and Centipedes
  • Cicada, Bagworm, Termites, Ant lion larvae, Dung Beetles, long – horned Beetle.

AMPHIBIANS

An introduction to Amphibians  

Frogs and Toads

Respirations

Calling

Habitat and Habitat Restrictions

Safety

Amphibian – (Breeding)

CULTURAL GUIDING – TANZANIA

  • Overview – Tanzania overview
  • Cultural overview – Meet the Hadzabe (Bushmen) Maasai ,Datoga.
  • Historical Overview
  • Wildlife and Nature conservation overview
  • Explore Tanzania

BOTANY

  • An Introduction to Botany
  • Wordy plant anatomy
  • Leaves, fruits, seeds, pods, flowers, seed pods,
  • plant processes
  • plant defence mechanism
  • Plant terminology
  • Useful plants of Tanzania (Ethnobotany)
  • Plants growth – and Adaptations
  • The common trees/Plants used as fodder by large herbivores
  • Plant communication

 

ECOLOGY

Introduction of ecology

  • Symbiosis – Mamals and birds fig tree and small black wasp.
  • symbiosis between strangler figtree and their hosts birds and  ants, between honey badger, black backed jackal and the pale chanting goshawk.
  • The Arms race between the cheetah and the animals upon which it preys
  • The Giraffe and the acacia species which it eats.
  • Ecological principles pyramid – trophic triangle
  • Hydrological Cycle
  • The component of an Ecosystem
  • The Nutrient cycle
  • The green house effect
  • The ozone layer
  • Photosynthesis
  • Oxygen Cycle
  • the Niche theory, carrying capacities, fire in our, ecosystem.
  • Nutrient Rebsorption in the Ecosystem.
  • Function of Parasites and Diseases in the Ecosystem
  • Deforestation
  • Desertification
  1. ORNITHOLOGY – BIRDS

Birding by Habitats

  • Birding in Aquatic habitat
  • Birding in high Altitude forest
  • Birds taxonomy
  • Identifying birds in low equatorial
  • Indentifying birds of prey
  • Introduction to Birding
  • Marine Birds, Reptiles, Biology Guides.
  1. HERPETOLOGY – REPTILES

It covers the   identification, classification, characterization, reproduction, description and distribution of all common species of the Region.

Module 1 Reptilia. (The Reptiles)

  • Introduction to Reptiles
  • Order chelonian (Shield reptiles)
  • Introduction to chelonian
  • Tortoise Species
  • Terrapin species
  • Turtle species

ORDER CROCODYLIA (CROCODILES)

  • Introduction to crocodiles.

ORDER SQUAMATA

  1. Sub order SAURIA (LIZARDS)
  2. Monitor Lizards
  3. Agama Lizards
  4. Plated lizard
  5. skink lizard
  6. lacertids – long tailed lizard
  7. girdled lizard

 

  1. SUB ORDER SUPRENTES (THE SNAKES)
  • Introduction to snakes
  • Pythons – Non venomous constrictors.
  • Cobra and Mambas – Venomous snakes
  • Vipers and Adders venomous snakes
  • Boomslang and twig, Bird eating, vine snakes
  • Dietary and adaptations.
  • First aid for snakebite

Guides guide to guiding

    • What is Guiding
    • The Guiding Industry
    • The game drive
    • who is a quality guide
    • Bush trekking and waling customized services
    • Principles, etiquette and Medical Articles.
    • Game drive without game.
    • Photograph
    • Guest handling sensitivity

GUEST SERVICES

        1. Vehicle checks
        2. Radio
        3. Mechanical problems
        4. Gratuities and Professionalism
        5. Greetings
        6. Pre drive briefing
        7. Fare well

GUEST SERVICES IN THE SCENIC AREAS

          1. Your body language
          2. Information delivery
          3. Game drive planning
          4. Managing Guides expectation
          5. Conversations skills
          6. Sensitivity to the animals and environments
          7. Sensitively during night drives
          8. Morning drinks stops
          9. Afternoon drinks stops.
          10. The ten points on perfect drives.

GUEST SERVICE ON SAFARI

      1. Guest services on drive
      2. Approaching dangerous game
      3. Tailoring
      4. Children on safari
      5. Reading guest body language
      6. The Eldery
      7. Large Group

learning by Doing

Our students on Field, in various National Parks in Tanzania.

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