7-Day Private Rongai Route Tour with Kilimanjaro Climbing

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
Arrival – Moshi- Pre-trek Briefing
1 stop
1
Greetings and welcome to Tanzania! A Kilele Climb representative will be at the airport to pick you up and transfer you to your hotel in Moshi. Prior to the start of the trek, you will meet your guide at your hotel in Moshi for a pre-trek briefing. It is recommended that you arrive at least one day prior to the start of the trek. During the pre-trek briefing, we will review your equipment and provide rental options at our store in Moshi.
12 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 2
Moshi to Rongai gate to Simba Campsite
1 stop
2
Mount Kilimanjaro
Elevation: 1,387/915 m to 1,950 m to 2,750 m Distance: 7km. Hiking Time: 4-5 hours Habitat: Montane Forest You will have an early breakfast. Transfer by our vehicles through many villages and coffee and plantations for 2-3-hour drive to Rongai gate (1,950 m/6,398 ft). After signing in and preparing the porters, you will start hiking on a wide path winding through fields of maize and potatoes, and then enter into montane forest. You will then start to climb gently but consistently through attractive forest that shelters a variety of wildlife. The forest begins to thin as you arrive at Simba Camp (2,600 m/8,530ft) with fantastic views over the Kenyan plains.
5 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 3
Simba Campsite to Kikelewa Campsite
1 stop
3
Mount Kilimanjaro
Elevation: 2,750 m to 3,600 m Distance: 18km. Hiking Time: 8-9 hours Habitat: Moorland After an early breakfast you will have a steady ascent to the second cave where you will stop for lunch. You leave the direct trail at this point and strike out across the moorland on a smaller path toward Mawenzi side peak.to Kikelewa Camp in a sheltered valley. At the Kikelewa Camp you will settle for your dinner and overnight rest.
8 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 4
Kikelewa campsite to Mawenzi turn hut Campsite
1 stop
4
Mount Kilimanjaro
Elevation: 3,600m to 4,330m Distance: 3km. Hiking Time: 4-5 hours Habitat: Semi-Desert After breakfast you will face a short, steep climb up grassy slopes; rewarded by superb all-round views, immersed in the vast surrounding wilderness. Soon after, you leave the vegetation behind and arrive at the Mawenzi Tarn Camp, which is situated in a spectacular cirque directly beneath the towering spires of Mawenzi Peak. After this hike, you will reach to the Mawenzi turn hut camp where you will also see the amazing undried Lake with no inlat as well as outlet here you will have lunch and rest then dinner and overnight at this camp.
5 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 5
Acclimatization day - Mawenzi Turn Hut
1 stop
5
Mount Kilimanjaro
This is your extra day on the mountain, and you will spend two nights at Mawenzi Tarn. You will hike up towards Mawenzi for a splendid acclimatization hike. Then after return back to the camp for lunch the dinner and overnight.
5 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 6
Mawenzi Turn hut campsite to Kibo Huts Campsite
1 stop
6
Mount Kilimanjaro
Elevation: 4,330m to 4,695m Distance: 8km. Hiking Time: 4-5 hours Habitat: Alpine Desert After an early breakfast you will cross the lunar desert of the saddle between Kibo peak and Mawenzi peak to Kibo Huts at the bottom of Kibo’s crater wall. You should spend the remainder of the day resting and preparing for your summit climb.
5 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 7
Summit Day! Kibo Huts campsite to Uhuru Peak to Horombo Huts campsite.
1 stop
7
Mount Kilimanjaro
• Elevation: 4,695 m to 5,895m to 3,690m • Distance: 4km up, 14km down. • Hiking Time: 10-15 hours • Habitat: Alpine Desert Wake at midnight to a light breakfast and then prepare for your summit ascent. The goal is to climb before dawn so that you can reach Uhuru Peak shortly before or after sunrise. Leave to the peak at 12; 00AM, switchback up steep scree or possibly snow, and reach Gilman’s Point on the crater rim at 5,861 m/18,640 ft between 4 and 6 AM. At this point, you will have views of the fabled crater and its icecaps facing you. Then after 2 hours of hiking along the Kibo crater rim near the celebrated snows takes you to Kilimanjaro’s true summit, Uhuru Peak here you will spend some times for taking photo’s but it will depend on how you feel. After your summit activities done, descend back to the Kibo Huts, have lunch, rest, collect your equipment, and continue on down, re-crossing the saddle to the Horombo Huts. Have dinner and overnight at Horombo camp.
11 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 8
Horombo Huts campsite to Marangu Gate to Moshi
1 stop
8
• Elevation: 3,690 m to 1,830m to 1,387m • Distance: 18km. • Hiking Time: 5-6 hours After a long and enjoyable sleep, you will be awaked for breakfast and pack up, start descend through the moorland to Mandara Huts. Here you will have lunch then proceed with your triumphant recessional down through lush forest to Marangu park gate. Here you will sign out then after a vehicle will take you to back to the hotel where it is definitely time for certificate presentation and celebration!
6 hours • Admission ticket included

Additional info

• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
• Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

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