6 Days Kilimanjaro Climb Umbwe Route

This day you will woke up early around 6am and prepared, ready for breakfast, and check out at the Lodge/hotel and depart from Moshi (890 m/2,920 ft) to Umbwe entrance gate. 

After registering at the gate, you will start your ascent following a gentle winding vehicle track for an hour to a signboard announces, “The small steep umbwe trail”. The

Introduction is over, and you now climb up for several hrs through a dense forest of rubber trees and giant fig trees. In places, you must scamper up steep sections of roots and rock.

The umbwe camp is in the forest, and there are some caves nearby. To the First encampment at 2800m dinner and overnight at the First cave campsite.

Your day starts early with a steaming cup of tea or coffee. After breakfast, you will climb steeply through leave the glades of the forest and follow an ascending path on the open moorland to the Barranco encampment located at 3 900 m. The clouds will part to reward you with a view of Uhuru peak looming overhead. After lunch, you enter a zone of giant ground sells (scenario Kilimanjaro) that seem to guard the heights, and this garden is one of Kilimanjaro’s special treasures you may find. After dinner you overnight at Barranco campsite

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. 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 Barafu Camp to Summit.

Summit Day! Barafu Camp (4,550 m/14,930 ft) to Uhuru Peak (5,895 m/19,340 ft) to Mweka Camp (3,100 m/10,170 ft) 7 km up, 23 km down 8 hours up, 7-8 hours down Scree and seasonal snow

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. 

At Stella Point you join the top part of the Marangu Route, but do not stop here too long, as it will be extremely difficult to start again due to cold and fatigue. Depending on the season and recent storms, you may encounter snow on your remaining hike along the rim to Uhuru Peak. 

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). 

This camp is in the upper forest, so you can expect mist or rain in the late afternoon or evening. 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 start walking down the small hills, will arrive at the park gate around 12noon. You will have Lunch and after the crew will wish you a well goodbye in a special way and you will never forget good memories of the trip. 

Later you check all your gears if reached at the gate safely, but also remember gratuities as an appreciation handshake to the staff at the gate is a traditional way for guests and hosts staff on the mount Kilimanjaro after finishing up the trip. At Exit Gate, you will sign your name and add details in a register. 

This is also where successful climbers receive their summit certificates or get successful certificates at the hotel or where ever will be staying and have a celebration Dinner and drinks with Porters and Guides. Also you get photos when presenting a certificate to each member of the Group for Good Memory after accomplished the Dream. 

From the Mweka Gate, you will continue down to the Mweka Village, possibly a muddy due to wet weather in the forest, its 3 km walk, 1 hour walking down to the Exit gate. In the Mweka Village you will be served a delicious hot lunch and after you will be transferred to a hotel / lodge for an overdue hot shower and comfortable night.

After breakfast, you can get prepared for later transfer to the airport or other destinations in Tanzania or east Africa in general. A trip to the beaches at Zanzibar and Bagamoyo in the coast there are good places to visit. We can arrange as many for reasonably priced trips