DAY 00:  ARRIVALS

Meal: dinner and breakfast included

Pickup at Kilimanjaro International Airport and transferred to your hotel in Moshi town, afterward your guide will come to brief you about the trek and do an equipment check to make sure you have all the necessary mountain gear. Then overnight and dinner in the hotel.

Day 2: Nalemoru Gate (1990 m) to Simba Camp (2570m)

Approx. hiking time: 4 hours

Distance covered: 8 km

Habitat: tropical Rain Forest

Meal: breakfast, lunch and dinner included

After breakfast, you will depart your hotel in Moshi and drive to Nalemoru Gate near the Kenyan boarder, where you start your Mount Kilimanjaro trek. Your first day walk is a gradual ascent through the rain forest. If you’re lucky zebras, elephants, buffalos, monkeys can be seen.

Day 3: Simba Camp (2570 m) to Kikelelwa Camp (3630 m)

Approx. hiking time: 7 hours

Distance covered: 11 km

Habitat: moorland zone

Meal: breakfast, lunch and dinner included

The trail continues up towards Kibo, passing Second Cave (3450m) and reaching Kikelwa Cave at about 3600 m. The views start to open up and you begin to feel you’re on a really big mountain! Water is in the obvious stream below the cave, although you might have to wander downhill a way to find some.

Day 4: Kikelelwa Camp (3630 m) to Mawenzi Tan Hut (4330 m)

Approx. hiking time: 4 hours

Distance covered: 8 km

Habitat: semi desert

Meal: breakfast, lunch and dinner included

Today prepare yourself for a short day but steep climb that will take up grassy slopes where you will be rewarded by stunning all round views and a tangible sense of wilderness. The camp it is spectacularly located in a cirque directly beneath the towering spires of Mawenzi. You have free time in the afternoon that you can either use to rest or explore the surrounding areas as an aid to acclimatization. Overnight at Mawenzi Tan Hut (4330 m).

Day 5: Mawenzi Tan Hut (4330 m) to Kibo Hut (4700 m)

Approx. hiking time: 5 hours

Distance covered: 8 km 

Habitat: alpine desert

Meal: breakfast, lunch and dinner included

Today you will cross the lunar desert of the saddle between Kibo and Mawenzi to reach Kibo Hut. You will spend your afternoon for lunch and resting at Kibo while waiting for final ascent to summit at midnight.

Day 6: Kibo Hut (4700 m) to Uhuru Peak (5895 m) then down to Horombo Hut  (3700 m)

Approx. hiking time: max. 15 hours

Distance covered: 22 km

Meal: breakfast, lunch and dinner included

The final part you will start climbing around 00:00. The part is considered as the steepest and most demanding. Your guide will set a very standard pace to you (walk slowly). In the darkness it will take us 5 hours to reach the crater rim at Gilmans Point (5685 m) where you will have a short rest with a cup of tea while you enjoy the spectacular sunrise over Mawenzi. Afterwards you continue for almost 1 hour to UHURU Peak (5895 m). You will be passing close to the spectacular glacier and ice cliffs that still occupy most of the summit area. After taking photos at the top of Africa you will start walking down to Kibo Hut for a short rest and hot lunch before descending down to Horombo Hut. Overnight at Horombo Hut (3700 m).

Day 7:Horombo Hut (3720 m) to Marangu Gate (1860 m)

Approx. hiking time: 7 hours

Distance covered: 20 km

Meal: breakfast and lunch Included.

The last day you will pass through heath and moorland zone to Mandara Hut (2700 m) and have a hot lunch there. Then continue going down through a tropical rain forest up to the Kilimanjaro National Park Gate. You will collect your certificates and after completing other park formalities the car will be ready to take you to your hotel in Moshi where you will have warm shower. It’s definitely time to celebrate!

END OF TOUR.

PRICING

Prices (quoted in USD/per person)

6 DAYS RONGAI ROUTE

Included in the price:

• Two nightsaccommodation in the hotel; first night includes dinner &breakfast, last night includes dinner
• Private transport to / from Kilimanjaro International Airport to your hotel in Moshi
• Qualified guides with mountain crew
• National park fees
• 18% VAT on tour fees and services
• All camping accommodations
• Mountain tents
• Transport
• Rescue fees
• All needs on the mountain (breakfast, lunch and dinner)
• Guides and porters accommodations and their entry fees on the mountain
• Pulse oximeter
• First aid kit
• Emergence oxygen
• Sleeping bag and sleeping mats
• Katady filtered water through the trek
• Fair wages to guides and porters as approved by Kilimanjaro National Park authority

 Not included

• Flights
• Visa
• Tips to mountain crew
• Items of personal nature
• Laundry services
• A doctor of a group
• Portable flush toilet with a toilet tent is extra