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Detailed Itineraries
Day 1: Arrival Day:
Arrive at the Kilimanjaro International Airport. You will be
met at the Airport and transferred to the hotel in Arusha or
in Moshi for your overnight and briefing by our mountain
guide. You can start your trek any day of the year!
Day 2: Arusha/Moshi to Marangu Gate to Mandara Huts
Elevation: (915 m/3,000 ft) to (1,830 m/6,000 ft) to (2,740
m/9,000 ft)
Distance: 7 km
Hiking Time: 4-5 hours
Habitat: Montane Forest
After breakfast and a briefing from your guide, leave Moshi
at 9 AM, drive for 45 minutes (or if driving from Arusha
leave the town at 7 AM, drive for one and half hours) to the
Marangu Gate on the eastern side of Kilimanjaro, register
with the national park, and begin hiking at 10:30 AM. In the
rainforest, look for towering Eucalyptus trees, bird life,
and Colubus monkeys. At these lower elevations, it can be
wet and muddy, so gaiters and trekking poles will help.
Shorts and t-shirts should be sufficient, but keep your rain
gear and warmer clothing handy. Stop halfway for lunch, and
reach the Mandara Huts at 2 or 3 PM. Unpack, rest, and have
some tea or coffee. A 15 minute side trip to Maundi Crater
is a good way to see the surroundings including Northern
Tanzania and Kenya. Dinner is served during the early
evening at 7 PM. Bathrooms with running water are available.
Day 3: Mandara Huts to Horombo Huts
Elevation: (2,740 m/9,000 ft) to (3,690 m/12,100 ft)
Distance: 11 km
Hiking Time: 6-8 hours
habitat: Heathland
Wake to a 7:30 AM breakfast, and pack for your next trek.
Break camp by 8:30 AM, hike for an hour through rainforest
glades, and then follow an ascending path through heath land
where you can look for giant lobelias and groundsels.
Continue up into open moorlands where small shrubs are the
main vegetation. Stop halfway for lunch, where you can enjoy
amazing views of Mawenzi. Arrive at the Horombo Huts by 3
PM, where you can see Kibo’s summit. Rest, unpack, and
prepare for dinner. Bathrooms with running water are
available.
You may start to feel the effects of altitude here, and to
aid your acclimatization, you can choose to spend an extra
day resting at Horombo or climbing to a base camp below
Kibo’s sub peak Mawenzi.
Day 4: Horombo Huts to Kibo Huts
Elevation: (3,690 m/12,100 ft) to (4,695 m/15,400 ft)
Distance: 10 km
Hiking Time: 6-8 hours
Habitat: Alpine Desert
Wake to breakfast as usual, but if you wake early you can
get some great photos of the sunrise. The first part of the
day’s hike climbs through the dwindling heath land that
blends into a moonscape as you enter the sweeping saddle
connecting Mawenzi and Kibo. When you stop for lunch, and
later when you cross this surprisingly large saddle, you can
examine the summit climb up Kibo that you will be starting
in just a few hours. Be careful to notice any signs of
altitude sickness. There is no running water at the Kibo
Huts.
Day 5: Summit Day! "Kibo Huts to Uhuru Peak to Horombo
Huts
Elevation: (4,695 m/15,400 ft) to (5,895 m/19,340 ft) to
(3,690 m/12,100 ft)
Distance: 4 km up, 14 km down
Hiking Time: 10-15 hours
Habitat: Alpine Desert
Wake at midnight to a light breakfast, then prepare for your
summit ascent. The goal is to climb before dawn so that you
can reach Uhuru Peak shortly after sunrise. Leave at 1 AM,
switchback up steep scree or possibly snow, and reach
Gilman’s Point on the crater rim at 5,861 m/18,640 ft
between 5 and 7 AM. Here, views of the fabled crater and its
icecaps greet you. Another 2 hours of hiking along the
crater rim near the celebrated snows takes you to
Kilimanjaro’s true summit, Uhuru Peak, by 9 AM. This is
Africa’s highest point, and you would have to travel more
than 3,000 miles toward the Himalayas to find a higher
peak! Be sure to have your picture taken at the summit to
show your friends. After your summit stay, descend back to
the Kibo Huts, have lunch, rest, collect your things, and re
cross the saddle to the Horombo Huts. Eat dinner and get
some well-deserved sleep!
You do the beginning of this climb in the dark with
headlamps or flashlights. It will be very cold until you
start descending, so you will need all of your warm layers.
This is, by far, the most difficult part of the trek. Slowly
slowly, or, “pole pole,” and an optimistic attitude will get
you there!
Day 6: Horombo Huts to Marangu Gate to Arusha
Elevation: (3,690 m/12,100 ft) to (1,830 m/6,000 ft) to (890
m/2,920 ft)
Distance: 18 km
Hiking Time: 5-7 hours
Wake as usual, pack, and descend through the moorland to the
Mandara Huts. Have lunch there then continue your triumphant
recessional down through lush forest to the park gate, which
you should reach around 2 or 3 PM. Remember to tip your
guides, cooks, and porters, since you will be leaving them
here. A vehicle will take you back to the Hotel in
Moshi/Arusha, where it is definitely time for celebration!
Day 7: Rest Day at your hotel,
Spend a relaxing day by the pool or have a stroll around. A
walk to this small town with view of the mountain is as good
as it reveals. Dinner and overnight at hotel.
Day 8: Tarangire National Park:
In the morning at 0830hrs pick up from your hotel in Arusha
and drive on tarmac road 120km to Tarangire National Park
for game drives. Lunch picnic and there after lunch continue
with afternoon game viewing in the park to look for Lion,
Leopard, Elephant, buffalo, Python, Zebra, Oryx, Impala and
more… Over 450 species of birds have been observed. Late in
the afternoon the driver will take you for dinner and
overnight at campsite, Tarangire. FB
Day 9: Manyara National Park
After breakfast, drive to Lake Manyara National Park for
game viewing. Stay overnight at Campsite, FB.
Day 10: Serengeti National Park /Olduvai
After breakfast leave Lake Manyara National Park to
Serengeti National park with picnic Lunch on route passing
through Olduvai Gorge a historical site whereby the early
man lived and can also pass by the Maasai boma if you are
interested in the real African life tradition and culture,
Dinner and overnight at Campsite, FB.
Day 11: Serengeti National Park
After breakfast leave with your packed lunch for full game
drive on the Serengeti Park acacia Savannah in the central
to the east region. Around 12.30pm and 13.00pm break for
your picnic lunch; thereafter proceed with tour afternoon
game drive. In mid January to February, much too mid April,
95% of females of wildebeest mate to a total of 60000 then 8
to 8.5 months later those females that conceived give birth
on the same southern plains after a long travel. Evening
drive to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 12: Serengeti/Ngorongoro
After break fast with your picnic lunch half game drive in
Serengeti, at 1230hrs breaks for lunch. After lunch drive to
Ngorongoro Conservation Area, one of the natural wonders of
the world. Dinner and overnight at Campsite, FB.
Day 13: Ngorongoro/Arusha
Descend in to the Crater for 6 hours Crater tour. This 100
square mile natural amphitheatre is host to an astonishing
array of wildlife and you may be lucky enough to see rhino,
elephant, lion, buffalo as well as large herd's zebras and
wildebeest. A picnic lunch will be taken in to the Crater.
Later in the afternoon drive back to Arusha.
End of Our service.
Price:
US $2,688 per person sharing (minimum 2pax)
Price above Includes:
- Transport to and from mountain gates.
- All parks entry fees.
- All camping fees.
- Rescue fees.
- Guide and porters fees.
- Guide and porters salaries.
- All accommodations on the mountain and safari based on
three meals a day.
- Cook and all kitchen utensils.
Price Above Excludes:
- International and domestic flights (we can arrange on
request)
- Accommodation on the first night upon your arrival before
climb and on the last day after climb (book with us)
- Airport transfers (book with us)
- Tips, drinks and all items of personal nature
- Hard and soft drinks and tips
- Sleeping bags but we can provide for hire on request.
- All Mountain Gears (we can arrange hire of this)
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