6 Days Kilimanjaro Climb Marangu Route

After breakfast and a briefing from your guide, leave at the Hotel or Residential at 8:00AM, drive for 45 minutes, from Moshi to the Marangu Gate or 2 Hrs drive from Arusha to Marangu Gate on the eastern side of Kilimanjaro park. In the rainforest, look for towering Eucalyptus trees, bird life, and Colubus monkeys. 

At these lower elevations, it can be wet and muddy, so gaiters and trekking poles will help. Shorts and t-shirts should be sufficient, but keep your rain gear and warmer clothing handy. Stop halfway for lunch, and reach the Mandara Huts at 2 or 3 PM. 

Unpack, rest, and have some tea or coffee. A 15 minute side trip to Maundy Crater is a good way to see the surroundings including Northern Tanzania and Kenya. Bathrooms with running water are available. After dinner you overnight at Mandara Huts.

On this day you will wake up early get prepared for breakfast which you will take at around 07:30am. After breakfast, pack for another day, next trek. Porters will break camp by 8:00AM, and the all group continue hiking to the next Camp. For an hour through rainforest glades, then follow an ascending path through heath land where you can look for giant lobelias and groundsels. 

Continue up into open moorlands where small shrubs are the main vegetation. Stop halfway for lunch, where you can enjoy amazing views of Mawenzi. Arrive at the Horombo Huts by 3 PM, where you can see Kibo’s summit. Unpack, and prepare for dinner. Bathrooms with running water are available. You will have Dinner and overnight at Horombo Hut.

You may start to feel the effects of altitude here, and to aid your acclimatization, you can choose to spend an extra day resting at Horombo or climbing to a base camp below Kibo’s sub peak Mawenzi for acclimatization

You can add an extra day at Horombo Huts (3,690 m/12,100 ft). You can spend a full day and a second night at Horombo. On this day, you can rest at the huts or take a stroll up to the Mawenzi base camp then return to the Horombo Huts. This extra day will help your acclimatization, and further your understanding of the mountain’s weather and altitude. After your pause, you will continue up to the Kibo Huts on your fourth day for your midnight start to the summit. You will have Dinner and overnight at Horombo Hut

You will wake up at around 06:30am and get prepared for breakfast and at around 07:00am you will have a breakfast as usual, but if you wake early you can get some great photos of the sunrise. 

The first part of the day’s hike climbs through the dwindling heath land that blends into a moonscape as you enter the sweeping saddle connecting Mawenzi and Kibo. When you stop for lunch, and later when you cross this surprisingly large saddle, you can examine the summit climb up Kibo that you will be starting in just a few hours. Be careful to notice any signs of altitude sickness. 

There is no running water at the Kibo Huts. On this day you will have very few hours of sleep, and your night will be very short. You will have a long walk from Horombo to Kibo Hut and after evening meals at around 06:30pm, you will have a short rest and sleep for 3hrs from 07:30pm, as you will need to wake up at 10:30pm and start getting your summit gears ready. The start to climb to summit will be at around 11:30pm. 

The goal is to climb before dawn so that you can reach Uhuru Peak shortly after sunrise. Switchback up steep scree or possibly snow, and reach Gilman’s Point on the crater rim at 5,861 m/18,640 ft between 05:00am and o6:00 am

You will be already walking more than half way to summit. Here, views of the fabled crater and its icecaps greet you. Sun Rise can be seen at around 05:30am. Another 1 hr to 2 hours of hiking along the crater rim near the celebrated snows takes you to Kilimanjaro true summit, Uhuru Peak, by 07:00am. 

You are now at Africa’s highest point! And you would have to travel more than 3,000 miles toward the Himalayas to find a higher peak! Be sure to have your picture taken at the summit to show your friends. After your summit stay, you will descend back to Kibo Huts, have lunch, rest, collect your things, and re-cross the saddle to Horombo Huts. After Dinner and get some well-deserved sleep, you will overnight at Horombo Hut

As this will be your last day on the mountain, you will need to wake up as usual at around 06:30am, pack, and then you will get your breakfast at 07:00am and start descend at around 07:45am from Horombo, through the moorland to the Mandara Huts. Have lunch there then continue your triumphant recessional down through lush forest to the park gate, which you should reach around 02:00pm or 03:00 PM.

 Remember to tip your guides, cooks, and porters, since you will be leaving them here, at the Gate, as most of them live in nearby villages close to the forest of mount Kilimanjaro, and will not need to back to Moshi Town with the group. A vehicle will take you back to the hotel or similar lodging in Moshi or Arusha, where it is definitely time for celebration!

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