Creation of dialogues. The rural Kilimanjaro Region suffers under the increasing migration of locals to the big cities like Daressalam, Arusha and Moshi. Thus, children grow up far away from their ancestral homeland and valuable traditions are getting lost. Due to this matter the trail aims to create encounters inviting people of different cultures to start a dialogue and maintain the culture of the Chagga. This can be achieved by for example Tanzanian school excursions with workshops and short hikes along the Kilimanjaro Friendship Trail.

Nature. Its is very interesting to get to know the biological diversity along the Kilimanjaro. The garden and the cultural zones, through which the trail runs, is until today a habitat shared by man and animals alike. There are various species and ecological systems. To be precise it is a unique agro-forest with 1000 kilometre squared combining forestry and agriculture in harmony. The architecture of the gardens seems to imitate the stratification of plants of the neighbouring rain forest. 

The layered horticulture with its mixture of copses and open spaces favours biodiversity with plants of more than 500 species. 100 of them are crops as well as a divers fauna.