Explore Africa's highest point

Kilimanjaro

Day 00: Arrivals Upon your arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, you’ll meet our office representative, followed by an hour drive to the hotel in Moshi Town. After having a short rest at the hotel, our mountain guide will meet you to check your climbing gears and equipment. If some gears will be missing, our guide will help you on how to rent those missing gears from the rental shops.

Day 02: From Machame Camp to Shira camp After breakfast at Machame camp you will slowly hike up to the next camp, leaving the rain forest and entering the moorland vegetations. You will cross many streams and walk a rocky ridge onto Shira plateau that leads you to Shira camp, (3,840m). At the camp you will spend the remaining time for rest, dinner, and overnight.

Day 04: From Barranco to Barafu base camp via Karanga Valley(summit overnight) At barafu base camp you will have a rest, dinner, and early sleeping because you will awake at mid-night for the summit attempt. Around 01:00am, guide will awake you to get well prepared with the summit gears, warm clothes that can accommodate up to -10 degree Celsius. After all process is done, the guide will slowly lead you to hike up for the summit attempt, passing through Stella point, (5685m) to Uhuru Peak (5895). Congratulation! You have made it to the top of Africa, now you are standing at the Africa’s highest point ‘Uhuru Peak’

Kilimanjaro

Day 06: From Mweka camp to Mweka gate. It’s the end of 6 days in the jungle, the morning of this day you will be packing all of your stuff ready to leave the park. Crew will be seen organizing and sorting all stuffs for marking the end of the tour. They will be singing, celebrating, and congratulating you for a successful climb. After all that you will hike down to Mweka gate, where you will sign out and receive certificates for those who made their summit attempt successfully. An hour drive from the gate will drop you to the hotel in town, ready for rest and continuing with other schedule. PRICE CHARGED FOR THIS TOUR Comfort Climbing $ 1850 per single person $ 1600 per person in group sharing $ 1400 per person in 5+ group sharing. PRICE INCLUSION. -Airport transfer on arrival and departure day -2 nights comfort stay in hotel/lodge -Transport to and from Mountain -All park entrance fee +18% VAT -All park accommodation fee + 18% VAT -Park rescue fee -Food on the mountain (3-meals a day) -Non-personal hiking equipment and gear -Salary to guide, cook, and the crew. PRICE EXCLUSION: -Tipping -Personal hiking gear and rentals -Other personal expenses out of the mentioned above. 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 are busy; it’s the peak season to climb Kilimanjaro. •          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, best time to climb Kilimanjaro. •          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.