7 Days Hiking to Summit Kilimanjaro Mount via Rongai

After breakfast in your hotel you will be given an overall briefing from your guide about your trip. Once you are done with the briefing the driver will take you to Rongai Gate where you will need to sign some papers as well as receive your permits for the hike. You will start hiking on a wide path winding through fields of maize and potatoes, and then enter into montane forest. You will then start to climb gently but consistently through attractive forest that shelters a variety of wildlife You will then start to climb gently but consistently through attractive forest that shelters a variety of wildlife. The forest begins to become thinner as you arrive at Simba Camp with

Destination:

Rongai Gate To Simba Camp

Overnight:

Simba Campsite

  public camp site

Meals & Drinks:

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Drinking water

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After an early breakfast you will have a steady ascent to the second cave where you will stop for lunch. You leave the direct trail at this point and strike out across the moorland on a smaller path toward Mawenzi side peak to Kikelewa Camp in a sheltered valley. At the Kikelewa Camp you will settle for your dinner and overnight rest.

Destination:

Simba Camp To Second Cave Camp

Overnight:

Kikelelwa Campsite

  public camp site

Meals & Drinks:

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Drinking water

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After breakfast you will face a short, steep climb up grassy slopes; rewarded by superb all-round views, immersed in the vast surrounding wilderness. Soon after you leave the vegetation behind and arrive at the Mawenzi Tarn Camp, which is situated in a spectacular cirque directly beneath the towering spires of Mawenzi Peak. After this hike, you will reach the Mawenzi turn hut camp where you will also see the amazing undried Lake with no inlet as well as outlet here you will have lunch and rest, dinner and overnight at this camp.

Destination:

Kikelelwa Camp To Mawenzi Turn Camp

Overnight:

Mawenzi Turn Campsite

  public camp site

Meals & Drinks:

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Drinking water

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This is your extra day on the mountain, and you will spend two nights at Mawenzi Tarn. You will hike up towards Mawenzi for a splendid acclimatization hike. The unique landscape offers motivating views of Kibo and Mawenzi. Then after return back to the camp for lunch, dinner and overnight at the camp.

Destination:

Mawenzi Turn Camp To School Hut Camp

Overnight:

Mawenzi Turn Campsite

  public camp site

Meals & Drinks:

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Drinking water

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After an early breakfast you will cross the lunar desert of the saddle between Kibo peak and Mawenzi peak to Kibo Huts at the bottom of Kibo’s crater wall. You should spend the remainder of the day resting and preparing for your summit climb.

Destination:

Mawenzi Turn Camp To School Hut Camp

Overnight:

Kibo Camp

  public camp site

Meals & Drinks:

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Drinking water

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Wake up at midnight to a light breakfast and then prepare for your summit ascent. The goal is to climb before dawn so that you can reach Uhuru Peak shortly before or after sunrise. Leave to the peak at 12; 00AM, switchback upAt this point, you will have views of the fabled crater and its icecaps facing you. Then after 2 hours of hiking along the Kibo crater rim near the celebrated snows takes you to Kilimanjaro’s true summit, Uhuru Peak here you will spend some times for taking photo’s steep scree or possibly snow, and reach Gilman’s Point on the crater rim. After your summit activities done, descend back to the Kibo Huts, have lunch, rest, collect your equipment, and continue going down re-crossing the saddle to the Horombo Huts. Have dinner and overnight at Horombo camp.

Destination:

Kibo Hut To Uhuru Peak To Horombo Hut

Overnight:

Horombo Hut

  hut

Meals & Drinks:

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Drinking water

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You will be awaken for breakfast and pack up, start descend through the moorland to Mandara Huts. Here you will have lunch then proceed with your triumphant recessional down through lush forest to Marangu Gate. Here you will sign out and receive your certificates, then a vehicle will take you back to the hotel in Moshi