Africa highest point.

Kilimanjaro

DAY 1:   MACHAME GATE TO MACHAME CAMP. An hour private drive from Moshi Town to Kilimanjaro National Park Machame Gate, where registration and payment process will be done, while porters are organizing the luggage ready to start a tour.  After all process, a tour will begin where you will be hiking for nearly 6 hours to first point, Machame Camp. In half way hiking, you will have a short break for rest and lunch, where lunch box will be provided. Around 1800hrs you will stop at Machame Camp where you will have a rest, dinner and overnight.

DAY 3:  HIKING FROM SHIRA CAMP TO BARRANCO CAMP VIA LAVA TOWER. After breakfast at Shira Camp, You turn eastwards and continue ascending through the dry landscape, the trek will continue to next point, Barranco Camp via lava tower. At Lava Tower point, you will have a short rest for lunch.  After a short rest and lunch at Lava tower, the trek will continue to Barranco Camp, where you will have a rest, dinner and overnight. 

Kilimanjaro

DAY 5: HIKING FROM KARANGA CAMP TO BARAFU CAMP (SUMMIT  OVERNIGHT ) After breakfast, you will be hiking slowly from Karanga camp all the way to Barafu base camp, where you will have a rest, hot lunch, dinner and overnight but around 00:00hrs you will be hiking to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, UHURU PEAK (5895amsl), via Stella Point.  You will hike for almost 5 to 6 hours through Stella point then UHURU PEAK, where you can stay until the dawning of the 5th day during sunrise that you can take a beautiful picture of your lifetime African Adventure while you are at the roof of Africa.

Arusha | Kilimanjaro

DAY 7: DESCEND FROM MWEKA CAMP TO MWEKA GATE (LAST DAY OF ADVENTURE )  After breakfast at Mweka Camp/ Millennium Camp you will start descending back to Mweka Gate for collecting your certificates, sign out and exit. The private drive to your hotel in Moshi town/Arusha and if the departure day is the same day then driver will drop you to airport (depends on flight day and time) PRICE CHARGED INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING 1)    Airport transfer on arrival and depart day 2)    Two night at tourist lodge (arrival and a day you descend from mountain) 3)    Transfer to and from Mountain starting point/gate 4)    Food for those  days 5)    Salary to guide, porters and cook 6)    All park entrance fee, rescue fee and 18% VAT 7)    Camping fee. Price Do not includes 8)    Personal items 9) Hiking equipment and gears 10) Tipping (recommended)     ESSENTIAL MOUNTAIN CLIMBING GEARS 50L waterproof duffle, small-size backpack, warm clothes including trouser, sweater, thermal underwear, and enough pair of warm socks, Balaclava, snow goggles or ski sun glasses, and scarf, waterproof layers, sun roof hat, warm sleeping bag, mattress, warm jacket, and a pair of gloves. Comfort mountain boots, and walking poles, Sun cream, first aid kit, a knapsack, a pair of getters and water-bottle, minimum 2litres each Mount Kilimanjaro climb: Tips for safe and successful Kilimanjaro summit. -Choose the best route that offers good acclimatization, oxygen decreases as you climb to higher elevation, choose the routes that offer the acclimatization throughout to avoid the possibility of experiencing higher altitude mountain sickness. In this case Rongai, Lemosho, and Machame routes are highly recommended. -Be well prepared and full equipped for Kilimanjaro trekking, do not forget to carry all necessary trekking equipments and gears. Remember, weather in the mountain is not precisely predictable; having with you the all weather gears is the best decision. -Do not carry too much heavy day-pack. Most of your item luggage will be carried by Kilimanjaro porters; you will just carry your light day pack bag, which contains the most necessary personal use for a day only. -Listen carefully to your guide, do not ignore the little advice from your guide, our Kilimanjaro guides are having more than 10-years experience, they have a broad working knowledge of Mount Kilimanjaro, please listen to what they direct you to do. -Eat enough food and drink more water so that your body won’t run out of energy, long day working requires body energy, make sure you eat as much as you can. Do not forget to go to bed early so that you will wake up with new energy to continue climbing. -Choose the best time to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Your chance to summit Kilimanjaro peak is highly influenced by the external factors like bad weather, knowing the best time to go for Kilimanjaro trekking will help you to plan your adventure accordingly. Best time of the year to go for Mount Kilimanjaro Climbing: •          June to October-peak of high season, most of the Kilimanjaro routes and hotels are crowded, peak season for climbing. •          October to December-Most of the Kilimanjaro routes are less crowded, this season may be associated with seasonal rainfall so not that much good for climbing, •          December to end of February-High season most of the routes and hotels are crowded. •          March to early of June-Low season, it’s the peak of the wet season as these months are associated with heavy rainfalls so not ideal for climbing.