Activities Included

Around 0900hrs, the drive from Moshi town to Kilimanjaro National Park-Machamegate will take place, it will take one hour to reach Machamegate, passing through the villages located on the lower slopes of the Mountain. At the gate you will have to register all the important details like name, Nationality and passport number. While the registration process is taking place, porters will be seen sorting and weighting the luggage. You will have spare time to move around taking photo and reading the historical information of Kilimanjaro Mountain. After all process being completed, you will slowly start hiking, to the first point, Machame camp, where you will spend the rest of the day, dinner and overnight. Distance from Machame gate to Machame camp hut is 11km and it can take you up to 5 hours hiking, and the trail is through Mountain rainfall forest.

After breakfast at Machame camp you will slowly hike up to the next camp, leaving the rain forest and entering the moorland vegetations. You will cross many streams and walk a rocky ridge onto Shira plateau that leads you to Shira camp, (3,840m). At the camp you will spend the remaining time for rest, dinner and overnight.

Leaving Shira after breakfast and start ascending to Barranco campsite, passing through moorland to semi desert and rocky landscape. A break for lunch will be at Lava Tower (4630m) before start to hike down to the camp (3950m). At this pass, climbers may experiences the effects of high altitude like headache and shortness of breath. At Barranco Camp you will have a rest, dinner and overnight.

After breakfast at Barranco camp, the trail continues to Karanga Valley, crossing ridges and valleys. At Karanga camp, you will have a break for hot lunch, before continue hiking to Barafu base camp. At barafu camp you will have a dinner and early sleeping because you will awake at mid-night for summit attempt. Around 01:00am, guide will awake you to get well prepared with the summiting gears, warm clothes that can accommodate up to -10 degree Celsius. After all process be done, guide will slowly lead you to hike up for the summit attempt, passing through Stella point, (5685m) to Uhuru Peak (5895).

The beginning of fifth day might caught you at the peak if the weather is good, you will be able to spend couple of minutes at the peak, taking a beautiful photo while sunrises, drinking a tea on your thermal bottle before start descending down to Barafu camp. At barafu camp you will have time to rest, before continuing to hike down to Millemium/Mweka camp for lunch, dinner and overnight

It’s the end of 6 days in the jungle, morning of this day you will be packing all of your stuffs ready to leave the park. Crew will be seen organizing and sorting all stuffs for marking the end of the tour. They will be singing, celebrating and congratulating you for a successful climb. After all that you will hike down to Mweka gate, where you will sign out, and receive certificates for those who made their summit attempt successfully. An hour drive from the gate will drop you to the hotel in town, ready for rest and continuing with other schedule.