MOUNTAIN CLIMBING - KILIMANJARO MARANGU ROUTE

6 nights/7 days

 

Kilimanjaro, Marangu Route is the traditional and most straightforward route on the mountain. It is also the busiest and best equipped. If you accept that there will be others around, there are the advantages of good huts, good views of Mawenzi and, of course, others to walk with. If you are travelling by yourself, this is the only route on which you can easily join a group.

 

DAY 1 Arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport. Meet our Staff. Transfer to Moshi. Briefing and overnight at hotel.	DAY 2 Early breakfast. Drive to Kilimanjaro National Park Marangu gate. Register and commence the climb, walking through the rain forest to Mandara hut (2700m). Picnic lunch en route. Dinner and overnight at Mandara hut.
DAY 3 Breakfast at the hut. Leave the glades of the forest and follow an ascending path on the open moorlands to Horombo hut (3700m). Picnic lunch en route. Dinner and overnight at Horombo hut	DAY 4 Breakfast at the hut. Ascending past the last water point to the saddle of Kilimanjaro between the peaks of Mawenzi and Kibo, arriving at Kibo hut (4700m). Picnic lunch en route. Dinner and overnight at Kibo hut.
DAY 5 Breakfast at the hut. Commence the climb to the summit on steepe and heavy scree, up to Gilman’s point (5681m). This is the crater rim, continue to Uhuru peak. This is the highest point in Africa (5895m). Picnic lunch en route. Star descent to Horombo hut. Dinner and overnight at Horombo hut.	DAY 6 Breakfast at the hut. The descent continues past Mandara hut back down to the park gate. This is where “Successful Climber” collect their “Well earned Certificates”. Meet and Overnight at Springland hotel.
DAY 7 Breakfast at the hotel. Day at leisure. Late afternoon transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your flight back home

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