6 Days Kilimanjaro Climb Machame Route

On this day will wake up at 06:00am, and have breakfast from 06:30am to 07:30am. Then you will check out at the hotel and get ready your belongings and board to the shuttle bus and get transferred to the starting point of Entrance gate and ready to start the hike. 

You will enjoy a welcome lunch stop halfway up and will reach the Machame camping area in the late afternoon. Your porters will arrive at camp before you and will erect your tent before you arrive. In the evening, the porters boil drinking and washing water while the cook prepares your dinner. 

Night temperatures can drop to freezing at the Machame Camp. You will have Dinner and Overnight at Machame Camp

You rise early at Machame camp at around 06:30am, and after breakfast, you will start the hike at around 07:30am, climb for an hour to the top of the forest, then for 2 to 3 hours through a gentle moorland. 

After a short lunch and rest, you continue up a rocky ridge onto the Shira Plateau where you will be able to see Kilimanjaro great Western Breach with its stunning glaciers. Sometimes, the walls of the Western Breach are draped with extensive ice curtains. 

You are now west of Kibo on the opposite side of the mountain from the Marangu Route. After a short hike west, you reach the Shira campsite. The porters will boil drinking and washing water before serving dinner. The night at this exposed camp will be colder, with temperatures dropping below freezing. In the evening you will have Dinner and overnight at Shira Camp.

Wake up at 06:30am, start preparing gears and get ready for breakfast at 07:00am. This day is very sensitive day, you will hike east up a steepening path above the highest vegetation toward Kilimanjaro looming mass. 

After several hours, you walk through a rocky landscape to reach the prominent landmark called Lava Tower at 4,630 m/15,190 ft. This chunky remnant of Kilimanjaro earlier volcanic activity is several hundred feet high, and the trail passes right below it. 

For extra credit, the sure-footed can scramble to the top of the tower. After a lunch stop, descend below the lower cliffs of the Western Breach and Breach Wall to Barranco Camp at 3,950 m/12,960 ft. 

There are numerous photo opportunities on this hike, especially if the walls are festooned with ice. On this day, be careful to notice any signs of altitude sickness. You will have dinner and overnight at Barranco Camp. 

After spending a night under the imposing Great Barranco Wall, you climb this awesome obstacle, which turns out to be easier than it looks. Topping out just below the Heim Glacier, you can now appreciate just how beautiful Kilimanjaro really is. 

The route then heads down through the Karanga Valley and goes over intervening ridges and valleys to join the Mweka Route, which will be your descent route. You have now completed the South Circuit, which offers views of the summit from many different angles. 

For now, all eyes are still on the summit, so turn left and hike up the ridge for another hour to the Barafu Hut. This should include replacing your headlamp and camera batteries, and to prevent freezing, consider carrying your water in a thermal flask. You will rise around 10:30 PM, and after some steaming tea and biscuits, you shuffle off into the night. You will start the summit hike walk at around 11:00pm from Baranko Camp to Summit

Your 6-hour climb northwest up through heavy scree between the Rebmann and Ratzel glaciers to Stella Point on the crater rim is the most challenging part of the route for most climbers. You will reach Stella Point (5,685 m/18,650 ft) at around 05:30am and you will stop for a short rest and a chance to see a supremely sanguine sunrise. 

On the summit, you can enjoy your accomplishment and know that you are creating a day that you will remember for the rest of your life. After your 3-hours descent from the summit back to Barafu Camp, you will have a well-earned but short rest, collect your gears, and hike down a rock and scree path into the moorland and eventually into the forest to Mweka Camp (3,100 m/10,170 ft). 

Dinner, and washing water will be prepared, and the camp office sells drinking water, soft drinks, and chocolates! After Dinner you will overnight at Mweka Camp. FB

After a well-deserved breakfast, it is a short, scenic, 3-hours hike back to the park gate. 

At Mweka Gate, you can sign your name and add details in a register. This is also where successful climbers receive their summit certificates. 

Some climbers’ likes to get their Certificates at the Hotel or where they will be staying and have a celebration Dinner and drinks with their Porters and Guides and get Certificates with photos of a Give presenting the Certificates to each member of the Group for Good Memory after accomplish the Dream.

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