DAY 1: Arrival Pick Up (Kilimanjaro/ Arusha Airport)

Overview

Welcome to Tanzania! On arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport, you will meet by a representative who will escort you by way of road transfer to Arusha.

• Sighting Seeing: Kilimanjaro Mountain (view)

• Distance: From Kilimanjaro international Airport 45km

• Time: 1hour and 30minutes

Accommodation in Arusha

• Included in Price: Arusha Tourist Inn Hotel

• Budget: Tulia Hotel - $30 USD per person per night sharing

• Standard: Planet Lodge - $60 USD per person per night sharing

• Comfort: African Tulip - $110 USD per person per night sharing

• Exclusive: Grand Melia- $150 USD per person per night sharing

• Premium: Arusha Coffee lodge- $230 USD per person per night sharing

Machame route Overview

• Machame route is also know as “Whiskey Route“, Its tougher compared to Marangu Route but the most scenic.

• As for scenery, the Machame route is very spectacular eg Shira Plateau, the Lava Tower, the Barranco Wall…

• Machame route has higher success rates 60% make to Summit. Its most popular and most crowded.

• The seven day leaves plenty of time to recover, acclimatize and get ready for summit.

• The Machame route is more strenuous often steeper, many ups and downs, cross many valleys and ridges, and its camping. Not Hut accommodation.

Walking distance: 8 km, Time: 3-5 hrs, Altitude gain= 840 m

• Pick at 8:00am from hotel to Marangu gate(1,860 m) takes 2hrs. Registrations, meet your guide and porters then pack all equipments. Takes 1hrs to 2hrs.

• Start Marangu Route walking through rain forest.

• The path is wide a bit steep but the forest is amazing a real fairytale forest, lush and deep and green, albeit misty.

• Lunch will be at a clearing near a stream. In 2hrs you will reach Machame Huts. Before the vegetation will change to the forest will open up.

Walking Highlights

• • blue monkeys • colobus monkeys • Streams • colorful birdlife • lichens and mosses • variety of flowers

Accommodation Machame Hut camp

• Machame Hut camps easily meets your needs in the best possible way. You can find frame mountain huts comprising of bunk bed at this hut or have at a camp with a tent and mattress. At this place, all trekkers gather for the same purpose. You can interact with a lot of similar minded climbers

Walking distance: 5.5 km Time: 4-6 hours Altitude gain: 820 m

• In the morning you will start walk through the forest. Soon their will be no more trees. In moorland the dominating plant is heather.

• You will get good view of Kibo and Mawenzi peaks. The vegetation offers more open views. Through the hills across a few dry creeks.

• Lunch stop will be 2hrs to the Shira Camp. (No pressure during walking. It takes as long as it takes!)

Walking Highlights

• • Hills • Kibo Peak • Mawenzi peak • colobus monkeys • giant senecios and loblelias • creeks

Accommodation Shira Camp

• Shira camp is an open area where you will rest for today and have dinner and overnight at the camp. You will be provide with a tent accommodation.

Walking distance: 10 km Time: 5-7 hours Altitude gain: 135 m.

• In the morning you will start climbing up towards the Lava Tower, a 100 m/300 ft volcanic plug. Even the short heather disappears altogether to reveal the rocky ground of the lava ridges.

• Lunch break near the Lava Tower you descend to the Barranco Valley. Sheltered by towering cliffs and is much greener.

• The Barranco Camp the most spectacular campsite of this route, with fantastic views of Kibo, the Western Breach and the first of the southern glaciers.

• This was an important day acclimatization.

Walking Highlights

• • Barranco Wall • Lava Tower • alpine desert • ridge • Mawenzi and Kibo peak

Accommodation Barranco Camp

• The most spectacular camp in Kilimanjaro because of the great views it has. Accommodation using tents at the camp.

Walking distance: 11 km Time: 8-10 hrs Altitude gain: 680 m 

Early in the morning you will tackle the Barranco Wall for 1:30hrs. It is strenuous to climb and very steep.

The wall is exposed and you will use your hands to steady yourself, but you can pretty much walk all the way to the top and have a breathtaking view of kibo peak.

From there it's 2 hrs over volcanic scree to Karanga Valley where you will have lunch, it is a green oasis, albeit a cold, windy one.

After lunch the walk is short to Barafu camp but on steep path increasingly inhospitable landscape on the left will be Southern Glaciers.

Barafu Camp is perched on a ridge in a landscape of barren and bleak.

Walking Highlights

• Hills • Valley • Ridge • Barren and bleak landscape • creeks

Accommodation Karanga Camp

The camp is on the other side of the valley (another climb...) and you can spend the afternoon resting, exploring, or chasing that perfect picture of one of the iridescent, malachite sunbirds that live here. 

Walking distance: 5.5 km(up) + 15 km Time: 10hrs+

Wake up at 11.00 and 11.30 pm. Get ready with your gear and have break fast. Around midnight start the hike to the summit you will see strings of little lights for climbers ahead of you.

As steep as the slope is the path itself isn't that bad. Take all the time you need.

There are two landmarks that are resting points only minutes. Then 1:30hrs after leaving the cave rocks appear on the path a bit slippery called Jamaican Rocks. Its another 1:30hrs to reach Uhuru Peak.

Descend for Lunch at barafu camp. You have no choice but to pack up your gear and keep going 3hrs to the Millennium Camp or Mweka Huts.

Walking Highlights

• Uhuru Peak • crater rim • Glaciers • Sunrise At Africa Highest Point • breath Taking Views.

Millenium Camp or Mweka Huts

Dinner and overnight at Millenium Camp or Mweka Huts.

Walking distance: 20 km Time: 5 hrs

After breakfast you set continue descending down. The path is already known so its just getting down to the Mweka gate.

At the gate you'll have to clear more formalities, but eventually you will say good bye to your guides and you climb into the vehicle waiting for you and be carried away to your hotel for hot showers and cold beers.

Accommodation in Arusha

• Included in Price: Arusha Tourist Inn Hotel

• Budget: Tulia Hotel - $30 USD per person per night sharing

• Standard: Planet Lodge - $60 USD per person per night sharing

• Comfort: African Tulip - $110 USD per person per night sharing

• Exclusive: Grand Melia- $150 USD per person per night sharing

• Premium: Arusha Coffee lodge- $230 USD per person per night sharing

Kilimanjaro Airport Drop Off 

Depending on your flight, use your last morning to fit in a final, epic game drive. You will be picked up from your hotel or lodge by your private driver and taken to Kilimanjaro airport in time for your return journey home.

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