Distance covered: 8 km

Approximate time taken: 4 hours

Habitat: Tropical Rain Forest

Meal: Breakfast, lunch and dinner included

Accommodation: Camping

A guide and a mountain support crew will visit your hotel to meet you this morning, hold a very short briefing, and then take you by vehicle to Kilimanjaro National Park’s northern entrance: Nalemuru Gate (2,020m/6627f). After the quick formalities for climbing permit acquisition and registration with the search and rescue service, the group will start trekking up to Simba Camp (2,671m/8612f). This day will have you trekking moderately through coniferous forest up Kilimanjaro’s northern slope. Don’t be in a rush; walk at a pace comfortable for you. Our professional mountain crew will have prepared everything necessary by the time you reach camp, erected tents, and begun preparing your dinner.

Distance covered: 8 km

Approximate time taken: 5 hours

Habitat: Moorland zone

Meal: Breakfast, lunch and dinner included

Another glorious day with marvelous vista to the eastern ice field on the crater walls of Kibo, which is the tallest of the three volcanoes comprising the mountain. It would take us about 3 hours of traversing the moorland zone on a little path moving toward the jagged peaks of Mawenzi (5140 m) to finally arrive at Kikelelwa for both lunch and overnight rest.

Distance covered: 8 km

Approximate time taken: 4 hours

Habitat: Semi desert

Meal: Breakfast, lunch and dinner included

Accommodation: Hut

Today, get ready for a short but steep climb, taking you to grassy slopes that will be rewarded with stunning views in all directions and an almost tangible sense of wilderness. The camp is well placed in a cirque directly underneath the tall spires of Mawenzi. After lunch, free time will be available for you to use as either rest or explore the area to aid acclimatization. Overnight: Mawenzi Tan Hut (4330m).

Distance covered: 8 km

Approximate time taken: 5 hours

Habitat: Alpine desert

Meal: Breakfast, lunch and dinner included

Accommodation: Hut

This day takes you across the lunar desert of the saddle between Kibo and Mawenzi to Kibo Hut, where you will have your lunch and rest in the afternoon while waiting for the midnight ascent to summit.

Distance covered: 22 km

Approximate time taken: 13 hours

Meal: Breakfast, lunch and dinner included

Accommodation: Hut

 Start climbing at about 00:00. This stage is said to be the steepest and most challenging. Your guide will set a very standard pace to you (walk slowly). In the darkness, it will take 5 hours to reach the crater rim at Gilman’s Point (5685 m), where you will take a little rest while having a cup of tea and appreciating the spectacular sunrise over Mawenzi. You will continue for almost one hour to the world’s highest point, UHURU Peak (5895 m). You will be passing close to the spectacular glacier and ice diffs that still occupy most of the summit area. After taking pictures at the top of Africa, you will start walking down to Kibo Hut for a short break and hot lunch before moving to Horombo Hut. Spend the night at Horombo hut.

Distance covered: 20 km

Approximate time taken: 7 hours

Meal: Breakfast, and lunch included

Accommodation: Hut

On the final day, you will hike from the heath and moorland zone to Mandara Hut (2700 m) for hot lunch and continue downhill through a tropical rain forest until you reach the Kilimanjaro National Park Gate where you will pick up your certificates for finishing the other park formalities, after which the car will take you to the hotel in Moshi, and you will enjoy a warm shower. Definitely time to celebrate!