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Kilimanjaro
is the highest mountain in Africa and one of the largest extinct volcanoes
in the world. It can be climbed any time except in April and May during
the long rains. January to March and August to October are the best climbing
seasons. We use the Marangu route, which is the easiest and most accessible.
DAY
1: NAIROBI - MOSHI.
Leave Nairobi for Moshi via Namanga where you go through immigration formalities
and Arusha where you have your lunch arriving in Moshi in the afternoon.
Spend the rest of the day organizing climbing gear. Dinner and overnight
at a hotel.
DAY
2: MOSHI - MANDARA HUT.
After breakfast, drive 45 km to Marangu gate, an altitude of 1,860m.Walk
9km to Mandara hut, 2,744m (9,000ft) through dense semi-tropical rain
forest for your first overnight on Mount.Kilimanjaro.Meals and overnight
at the camp.
DAY
3: MANDARA - HOROMBO HUT.
Start early morning for an early morning for a ten hour walk towards Horombo.The
landscape becomes more rugged and rocky but superb, with both Mawezi and
Kibo peaks in view. You spend your second night at Horombo hut, an altitude
of 3,761m(12,335ft)
DAY
4: HOROMBO HUT - KIBO HUT.
Take a tiring 13km walk, which takes 6hrs to Kibo hut 4,732m (15,520ft)
above sea level. Spectacular mountain vegetation like giant cactus, ground
well and lobelia appears. Dinner and overnight at the hut.
DAY
5: KIBO HUT - UHURU PEAK - HOROMBO HUT.
The final attempts to the peak are made in the early hours of the morning
at 2 am. it takes about 5 hrs to climb the steepest and most difficult
part of the route to Gilman's point (5,896m)18,630 ft. From Gilman's it
takes 1 ½ to 2 hours to Uhuru peak, (5,896m) 19,344ft. Descend to Horombo
for dinner and overnight.
DAY
6: HOROMBO - MOSHI.
Descend is rapid. After breakfast, walk down to Marangu gate for transfer
to Moshi. Dinner and overnight at Moshi.
DAY
7: MOSHI - NAIROBI.
After breakfast, drive to Arusha for lunch, then to Nairobi via Namanga
border town, arriving early in the evening.
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