Your Guide and Porters load during hiking to Mount Rinjani

Porters load during hiking to Mount Rinjani

Guides and porters are essential for a safe, comfortable, and enriching Mount Rinjani trekking experience, offering logistical support, cultural insights, and personal assistance during the ascent and descent

Role of Guides

Guides are responsible for safety, navigation, and overall coordination during the trek.

Their main duties include:

Trail Navigation and Safety: Ensuring climbers do not get lost, managing hazards, and responding to emergencies such as altitude sickness or injuries

Motivation and Support:

Providing mental encouragement and advice during challenging parts of the climb

Cultural and Environmental Insight:

Sharing knowledge about Rinjani’s history, flora, fauna, spiritual significance, and local Sasak traditions

Logistics Coordination:

Working with porters to organize tents, meals, and waste management to ensure a smooth trekking experience
Professional guides are typically well-trained and certified, with many coming from families that have guided Mount Rinjani for generations. Their experience contributes to a high success rate for summit climbers, often over 99%

Role of Porters

Porters provide physical and logistical support, carrying supplies, preparing camps, and assisting with meals.

Key responsibilities include:

Load Carrying: Transporting trekking equipment such as tents, sleeping bags, tarpaulins, kitchen tools, and food, usually up to 20–25 kg per porter
Extra porters can be hired to carry personal items at additional cost (e.g., approximately IDR 300,000 per porter per day for a 3-day trek)

Camp Preparation:

Arriving ahead of trekkers to set up tents and prepare resting areas

Cooking and Hospitality:

Preparing meals and hot drinks to sustain climbers

Environmental Conservation:

Many porters help maintain the mountain by removing trash and promoting eco-friendly practices
Porters are usually locals from villages such as Senaru and Sembalun, and their knowledge of the mountain is enhanced by cultural and religious ties to Rinjani

Practical Considerations

Recommended Ratios: Ideally, one guide per four climbers and one porter per climber ensures attention, safety, and support
Ratios can be adjusted depending on group size.
Payment and Tipping: Payment for porters and guides is typically made directly at the end of the trek, and tipping is customary as a gesture of appreciation

Work Limitations:

Porters and guides do not work during major religious holidays such as Eid al-Fitr but may still operate during Ramadan if services are scheduled

Cultural Integration:

Guides and porters enhance the trekking experience by providing deep local knowledge and connections to the Sasak culture and traditions

Summary

We provide professional guides and porters is highly recommended for Mount Rinjani treks due to the challenging terrain, logistical demands, and rapidly changing weather. They not only ensure safety and physical support but also enrich the journey by sharing cultural, environmental, and historical insights. Supporting ethical practices by respecting their work and tipping appropriately also benefits the local communities and contributes to sustainable tourism

We have studied and dig further their observations, they have a tolerance as a porter during the events at Mount Rinjani, they bring your bags with a load of 25 kg up to more, we really appreciate their passion for providing our daily lives so that they can work happily, besides they be porter, they can also cook well over on Mount Rinjani

About Porter Mount Rinjani

Your porter will carry food, tents, sleeping bags, mattresses, tarpaulins and kitchen tools are included, the porters are all very fit bring all stuff to mount Rinjani each 20 kilos, and not include carrying your bag to the porter

Your obligation to use porter, outside of extra porter

Using porter trekking Mt Rinjani package 2 days 1 nights
When the guest are 2 people as climbers, we provide 1 porters and 1 guide.

Using porter trekking Mt Rinjani package 3 days 2 nights
When the guest are 2 people as climbers, we provide 1 porters and 1 guide.

Using porter trekking Mt Rinjani package 4 days 3 nights
When the guest are 2 people as climbers, we provide 2 porters and 1 guide.

Using porter trekking Mt Rinjani package 5 days 4 nights
When the guest are 2 people as climbers, we provide 3 porters and 1 guide.

Your Porter has worked maximally as long as possible in Mount Rinjani

Your porter has been cooking while on Mount Rinjani, putting up tents, packing tents and doing other things

Burden on the shoulders of our porters during hiking to Mount Rinjani fit 20 kg