Mount Kilimanjaro Bike Trek

7 days—Join us for the adventure of your lifetime: Bike Kilimanjaro is the trip you will talk about for a long time.

$3930-4160 USD

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Safari summary

Bike trek is one of our products of trekking the Kilimanjaro Mountain. Kilema route is the only route that Bike trek to Kilimanjaro Mountain can reach to the top of the Mount Kilimanjaro by mountain bike. This activity provides physical exercise and recreational use of natural landscape. Climbing the highest mountain in Africa on foot isn’t challenging enough for you? Have you always wanted to know how it would feel to bike down from 6000m? Then we have the perfect adventure for you. As one of the first travel operators in the world we can get you, in all probability, to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. Is it a biking trip that you can pedal through the whole time? No. Is it an adventure that you will never forget for the rest of your life? OH YES!

Whether you actually reach the summit depends almost exclusively upon one factor: your acclimatisation. Our whole itinerary is geared towards one single day, that is to say, summit day. The day after our arrival in Tanzania we will be ready to start the acclimatisation. In a total of 5 stages we will make it to Basecamp. We can bike most of the uphill. At some sections we push to save energy. We need to save most of this for the day of the summit when we will have a climb of 1200m in one day. There is more than enough time for this, as we will set off shortly after midnight. As a reward for reaching the summit we have a compulsory souvenir photo in store for you as well as a nearly 5000m descent. You’re guaranteed to be talking about this for a long time afterwards.

Why is this Biking trip more expensive than a trekking trip?

The price depends on different factors. Firstly Kilimanjaro National Park requires everyone to have a cycling permit, which costs 500 USD per person. Secondly, our groups are only small, with a maximum of 10 people. As we are using and transporting mountain bikes we have more personnel employed on site and for the duration of the trip than you would for a normal trek. Besides, our trip will be led by an experienced and certified mountain bike guide.

About this tour

	Tour type	Custom, tailor-made, private
	Main focus	Hiking \| trekking
	Activity level	Strenuous activity
	Best months	February, March, June, July, August, September, October, November
	Countries	Tanzania
	Parks	Kilimanjaro

Fine details

Safari highlights

Bird watching—with professional guide
Cycling | mountain biking—with professional guide

What’s included?

Accommodation
Airport transfers
Park fees

What’s not included?

International flights
Laundry
Spa treatments
Tips and gratuities
Visas

Itinerary

KILIMANJARO AIRPORT – ARUSHA

Arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, where you will be picked up and transferred to Kizumba House for overnight bed and breakfast. Overnight Kizumba House (bed and breakfast) or Similar.

Kizumba House.

MARANGU GATE/ KILEMA HUT

Kilimanjaro

You will be picked up from Kizumba House at 7:30 am. This morning we drive through Kilimanjaro’s semi-tropical foothills to Marangu Gate, where we will spend a few minutes registering and getting the permit and then drive to Kilema gate and enter Kilimanjaro National park. Start riding up to Horombo Hut. Today is 100% cycling by bike. The cycling distance of 19 Km, and the expected vegetation is forest and moorland.

HOROMBO HUT | MAWENZI HUT

Kilimanjaro

After breakfast, you start your cycling, riding through the alpine desert, some of the areas you will be riding will be on small stone pathways up to Mawenzi Hut and back to Horombo. With a cycling distance of 10km, today’s vegetation is 90% “Alpine desert.”

HOROMBO HUT | KIBO HUT

Kilimanjaro

After breakfast, you will continue cycling to Kibo Hut on stony paths. The vegetation will be a more alpine desert.

KIBO HUT | SUMMIT | HOROMBO HUT

Kilimanjaro

At 4 am, you will be woken up by your guides to start the zigzag trek up a long screen slope. After roughly two hours, you should reach Hans Meyer’s Cave, and the gradient gets steeper from here. Continue your climb for approximately another 3 hours to Gilman’s Point. You will take your bike from Porters and start riding to Uhuru peak. Arriving at Uhuru peak, spend a few minutes taking in the views and taking photos to then ride down to Stella Point. After lunch, ride down to Horombo hut.

HOROMBO HUT | KILEMA GATE

Kilimanjaro

After a leisurely breakfast, make your final ride down to Kilema Gate across the alpine and the rain forest, where you will be transferred to Marangu Gate for check out and then to Kizumba House. Overnight Kizumba House (bed and breakfast) or Similar.

Kizumba House.