Mount Kilimanjaro Trek

Arriving at Kilimanjaro International Airport, we transfer you to your hotel in Moshi, where the rest of the day is free for you relax and recover from your flight.

Overnight:

Springlands Hotel

This morning we prepare equipment for the coming trek and then drive to the park headquarters at Marangu gate. After meeting your guide and porters, it's then a 4-5 hour hike through the forest to Mandara hut, where we stop for the night.

Overnight:

Trekking Hut

Meals included:

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Today is a 6-7 hour hike that takes you through the upper rain forest to grassland and Afro-Alpine landscape with its strange pre-historic looking vegetation, such as Giant Groundsel and Giant Lobelias. Continuing out onto moorland you will enjoy great views of Moshi town and Mawenzi peak before arriving at Horombo hut where we spend the night.

Overnight:

Trekking Hut

Meals included:

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Today is a free day to allow you to better acclimatise to the rapid altitude gains of the previous days. It is included to help reduce the effects of altitude, which can often prevent otherwise fit climbers from reaching the summit.

Overnight:

Trekking Hut

Meals included:

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Today is another full day trekking of between 6-7 hours as vegetation gives way to open grassland. Passing the last trickle of water you ascend to the saddle between Kibo and Mawenzi peaks. Here the landscape is barren and, with wind-chill, can become very cold, so be sure to dress warmly. You spend the night at Kibo hut on the east side of Kibo peak.

Overnight:

Trekking Hut

Meals included:

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Today is a very long day with a hike of 10-14 hours up to the summit and then back down to Horombo. You'll awake shortly after midnight and start for the summit at a about 01:00 hours. The ascent up still-frozen scree to Gillman's point is steep and hard going for 4-6 hours. From here, the final 1-2 hours trekking to the summit, Uhuru peak, is much easier. Standing on the summit as the sun rises over Mawenzi is a truly breathtaking sight, with views in every direction. It's like being on top of the world! From here you'll descend back down to Kibo for lunch and on down to Horombo hut for the night.

Overnight:

Trekking Hut

Meals included:

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Today you'll make your way back down to the park entrance and then transfer back to your hotel in Moshi, where you have the rest of the day free to recover from the hard days trekking and to reflect on your achievement.

Overnight:

Springlands Hotel

Meals included:

Breakfast & Lunch

Today your tour ends with a transfer back to Kilimanjaro International airport for your flight home.

Extras and options:

Optional extensions to this tour are available to visit the local National parks, including Lake Manyara, The Serengeti, Arusha, Ngorongoro Crater and Tarangire.

Meals included:

Breakfast