5 Days Marangu Route Mountain Climbing and Safari Tour in Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Facilities

Day 1: Arrival day

You will be picked up from Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) to the hotel in Moshi town where you will be staying for dinner and overnight. At the hotel, you will meet a mountain guide who will briefly explain to you the itinerary for the next day and all the essential information about climbing Mount Kilimanjaro including the route, hiking equipment, and other important information.

The guide will also check for your personal climbing gears and equipment, if there are some missing, you will have a time to rent the next morning before departing to Kilimanjaro.

Day 2: Hiking from Marangu Gate to Mandara Hut

After breakfast in your hotel, a car with driver and guide will be waiting for you outside. You will have time to sort some stuff like equipment renting and buying of some personal use at the supermarket. After all being done, a journey to Kilimanjaro Mountain, Marangu gate starts and it will take a maximum of an hour.

After you get to the Kilimanjaro gate park, you will register your name, nationality, age, passport, and other required information. Thereafter the guides, cook, and porters will be ready to commence the journey, hiking to the first point Mandara Hut.

• Elevation: 1,860 meters or 6,100 feet to 27,00 meters or 8,875 feet
• Distance: eight kilometers or five miles
• Hiking time: five to six hours
• Habitat: mountain forest

Day 3: Hiking from Mandara to Horombo hut

After breakfast at Mandara Hut, you will be ascending to Horombo Hut. The altitude begins to change and slows down your pace while enjoying the flora and the view of Mawenzi and Kibo peaks. You will have a break half-way for lunch, and after continue with the journey. You will arrive at the Horombo Hut 12 kilometers from Mandara where you will have a rest, dinner, and overnight.

• Hiking time: eight hours
• Elevation: 12,335 feet (3,780 meters)

Day 4: From Horombo Hut to Kibo hut and summit at night

After breakfast at Horombo Hut, the hike to Kibo Hut begins. Ascending, passing the last watering point, walking onto the saddle of Kilimanjaro between the peaks of Kibo and Mawenzi. Vegetation begins with upper heathland but then disappears into “moonscape”. Lunch box will be provided on halfway. You will arrive at Kibo hut on the afternoon where you will have a rest, dinner, and overnight while preparing yourself for Uhuru Peak summit at night around 1:00 a.m.

Day 5: Descend from the summit

The beginning of day four might caught you still at the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro, Uhuru Peak. You can take a beautiful picture of your lifetime adventure in Africa while the sun rises and slowly starts to hike down to Kibo Hut for breakfast, rest, and later on start to descend to Horombo Hut where you will have lunch, rest, dinner, and overnight.

Day 6: Final day of the adventure

You will descend from Horombo Hut to Marangu Gate for the exit. This day you will be sorting all of your stuff ready to exit the park. After breakfast, you will slowly hike down to Marangu gate for the exit. The driver will pick you from the gate to the hotel in Moshi for lunch and rest but if your flight is the same day then, at a given time the driver will drop you to the airport for departure.

This adventurous hike and safari tour will be held at Mount Kilimanjaro National Park. Mount Kilimanjaro is Africa's highest mountain and one of the continent's magnificent sights, at 5,896 meters. It has three main volcanic peaks, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira. The name itself, "Kilimanjaro" is a mystery wreathed in clouds. It might mean "Mountain of Light, "Mountain of Greatness," or "Mountain of Caravans."

Above the gently rolling hills and plateau of northern Tanzania rises the snowy peak of Mount Kilimanjaro, its slopes and glaciers shimmering above the rising clouds. Kilimanjaro is located near the town of Moshi and is a protected area, carefully regulated for climbers to enjoy without leaving a trace of their presence. The mountain’s ecosystems are as strikingly beautiful as they are varied and diverse.

Once inside the park, thick lowland forest covers the lower altitudes and breaks into alpine meadows once the air begins to thin. Near the peak, the landscape is harsh and barren, with rocks and ice the predominant features above a breathtaking African view. Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro is the highlight of most visitors’ experiences in Tanzania.

Few mountains can claim the grandeur, the breathtaking views of Amboseli National Park in Kenya, the Rift Valley, and the Masaai Steppe, that belongs to Kilimanjaro. Hiking on the rooftop of Africa, the highest point on the continent is at 5,896 meters. It is the adventure of a lifetime, especially because, if paced well, everyone from seasoned trekkers to first-time enthusiasts, can scale the snowy peak.

There is also so much more to Kilimanjaro than her summit. The ascent of the slopes is a virtual climatic world tour, from the tropics to the Arctic. Even before you cross the national park boundary at the 2,700 meter contour, the cultivated foot slopes give way to lush montane forest inhabited by the elusive elephant, leopard, buffalo, the endangered Abbot’s duiker, and other small antelope and primates.

Higher still lies the moorland zone, where a cover of giant heather is studded with otherworldly giant lobelias. Above 4,000 meters, a surreal alpine desert supports little life other than a few hardy mosses and lichen. Then finally, the last vestigial vegetation gives way to a winter wonderland of ice and snow, and the magnificent beauty of the roof of the continent.

For this hike and tour, you will be provided with three meals daily with special meals like vegetarian and / or gluten-lactose free.

• Book additional spa treatments
• Capture photos of the wildlife and sceneries
• Enjoy the hikes
• Explore the surroundings
• Rest in your accommodations
• See the stunning views

• 3 daily meals
• 4 nights accommodation
• All park entrance fee, rescue fee, and 18% VAT
• Transfers to and from Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO)
• Guide, porters, and cook services
• Transfer to and from the Mount Kilimanjaro starting point and ending points

• Personal hiking equipment and gears
• Personal items use
• Tipping

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• A reservation requires a deposit of 30% of the total price.
• The deposit is fully refundable if the booking is cancelled up to 14 days before the arrival date.
• The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.