7 Days Kilimanjora trekking Marangu route

Leave Nairobi with morning shuttle bus drive to Moshi, or pick up from Kilimanjaro Airport and drive you to the hotel(budget) for check in, This is where you will spend your evening acclimatizing the weather and also the guide will check on your trekking gears, also Dinner and overnight

Pick up from your Arusha or Moshi hotel, be introduced to the guide, Porters and cook then depart for Marangu gate for Registration. Start the 7kms from the gate through a rain forest where you will search for the Towering Eucalyptus, bird life and the Columbus monkeys. Upon arrival at Mandara hut a walk to the Maundi Crater is recommended so that you can see the view of the Northern Tanzania and Kenya. Dinner and overnight at the Mandara Huts.

Breakfast as the guide brief you about the day climbing, later start your day through the rain forest again, after 1 hour or 1 hour 30minutes leave the forest and approach the moorlands all the way to Horombo escarpments. You will start feeling the effects of the attitude as you have a view of kibo summit and Mawenzi small peak view. Dinner and overnight at Horombo Huts.

Share breakfast with your guide, porters and the cook and commence your day to cover the 10kms from your day huts to Kibo Huts. Ascend and descend the peak of Mawenzi and Kibo Summit, the vegetation here begins with heath lands to moonscape. Arrive at Kibo Huts for Dinner and overnight as you prepare to reach summit the following day.

Early in the morning between 0200am to 0300am depending on your climbing speed start so that you can make it to Uhuru peak before sunrise. The path is steep and covered by snow, pass through Gilman’s Point located at the crater rim 5861metres and continue to Uhuru peak 5895mtres/19340 fts which is the highest peak in whole Africa. Have unbelievable views on all turns, take great photos and start to descend knowing that you have achieved your dream. Make a stopover at Kibo Huts for lunch and descend down to Horombo Huts for Dinner and overnight.

Breakfast at the Huts, get ready for the Final 18kms walk through the moorlands and the rain forest it will be wet and muddy therefore Guiters and trekking poles will help. Reach Marangu gate for your certificate of achievements, say bye bye to the porters and cook then be transferred either to Moshi or Arusha depending on your next day activity, either airport,safari or drive back to Nairobi.