7 Days Mount Kilimanjaro Safaris

	$1800 USD	Per Person

Breathtaking Tanzania Camping Safaris

Experience a breathtaking climb up to the summit of magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania! Let's view Tanzania will help you prepare your trek via Marangu route, also known as the Coca Cola route because it offers all facilities that will make you feel like you're home. Marangu route is a special route because instead of staying in a tent like the other six routes, you will be staying in a hut. Take this opportunity to climb the snow-capped mountain while staying comfortable as much as you can.

Highlights

Kilimanjaro trek certificates
Guided trek to Kilimanjaro's peak
Professional and experienced mountain guides
Guides, porters, and cook fees
7 nights accommodations
Hotel transfers

Tour Details/Itinerary

Day 1: Arusha arrival
You will arrive at Arusha and you will stay at Peache Hotel before your departure to Marangu gate the next day.

Day 2: Drive from Arusha to Marangu Gate
After your early breakfast, you will drive to Marangu Gate for registrations formalities. You will then start your Mount Kilimanjaro climb at 1860 meters. This will be not a long day trek and you will trek up to 2700 meters, through montane forest habitat covering a total distance of eight kilometers for about three to four hours to reach the first hut, which is the Mandara hut where you will have your dinner and overnight stay.

Day 3: Mandara Huts to Horombo Huts
Your day two Kilimanjaro climb will start after breakfast. You will proceed with the trekking through the mountain by trekking through heathland habitat. It will take approximately five to seven hours from Mandara Hut to Horombo hut. You will cover a distance of 12 kilometers to reach the Horombo hut as your destination where you will have your dinner and overnight stay.

Day 4: Horombo Huts to Kibo Huts
Your hike will start very early on this day. The hike will not be too long but expect the wind mostly in the saddle area. Horombo Huts elevation is at 3700 meters and Kibo Huts is at 4700 meters. It will take you half day to arrive at the base of Kibo where you will have a very early dinner and the last briefing about a summit time. You will spend your overnight at Kibo Huts. Kibo huts have thin air and it is highly recommended to take plenty of liquid.

Day 5: Kibo Huts to Uhuru Peak
Today is a summit day which normally will be a long day on the mountain. Your day will start after midnight at 00:30, ascending through the Swiss post via Williams point to Gilman’s point. This climb will take about four hours but it will depend on with your pace. From there, you will continue through a grater rim to Stela point, this will be at 05:45. Sunrise will be at 05:45. From Stella point, it will take another one hour and a half to reach the main peak. At the peak, you can take quick photos and continue to descend to the base Kibo Huts for a little rest, hot lunch, and descend to Horombo Huts for overnight. You may expect this day to take about 15 hours.

Day 6: Horombo Huts to Marangu Gate
This is another long day for you. You will need working poles to support you from this descent, you will start with this descent from Horombo Hut via Mandara Huts to the head quote’s, Marangu Gate where you will sign your Kilimanjaro Trek certificates. Your driver guide will be waiting for you at the park gate to pick you up and transfer you back to your hotel in Arusha for an overnight before your departure the next day.

Day 7: Departure

End of Tour

Location

Kilimanjaro is Africa’s highest peak and the world’s highest free-standing mountain which is walk able summit. Mount Kilimanjaro is the crown of Tanzania. Rising abruptly from the open plains, capped by snow and frequently fringed by clouds, it is one of Africa’s classic images. The diameter of its base is an incredible 40 kilometers.

Kilimanjaro is dormant, but not an extinct volcano. Worrying thunder can sometimes be heard and gases emerge from the fumaroles in the crater. Although just three degrees south of the Equator, the peaks of both Kibo and Mawenzi have permanent caps of snow and ice.

During their time on the mountain, climbers will pass from a tropical to an arctic environment in just a few days. The various trails first pass through lush rainforests before reaching heather and open moorland where giant lobelia and huge, cactus-like groundsel grow. Above this moorland is the almost lunar landscape of an alpine desert which stretches between the two peaks of Kibo, the flat-topped dome at the center, and Mawenzi, a group of jagged points and pinnacles on the eastern side.

Inhospitable as this ‘moonscape’ may seem, animals such as herds of eland thrive there. The highest point is on Kibo, and indeed the whole of Kilimanjaro, is Uhuru peak, with its spectacular hanging glaciers and stupendous views of the African plains some 20,000 feet below. Also on Kibo, the slightly lower peak is the Gillman’s point. These are the goals for most trekkers. The peaks of Mawenzi are for mountaineers only.

The Mount Kilimanjaro is attempted using its six popular routes of which one is commonly used for descending only the Mweka route another routes include the Marangu (which is both used for climbing and descending after climbing using other routes such as Machame, Rongai, Lemosho, Umbwe, Shira, and itself.
Marangu is the only route with huts as accommodations leaving others to accommodate hikers using the mobile tents. Each route in Kilimanjaro has its different challenge and view and landscape but the bottom line is to reach to the rooftop of Africa which is Uhuru peak