The Best 5 Days Rongai route kilimanjaro Climbing 2024,2025

Day 0:Arrive at Kilimanjaro Airport

• Arrive at the Kilimanjaro International Airport where you will be met at the airport by Kizza Adventures driver and tour guide. There after you will meet with our guide who will explain everything you need to know before your Kilimanjaro tour. He will also inspect your equipment to make sure you have all the requirements to make your tour super one and will help you rent the ones you miss. Then you will be transferred to the hotel in Moshi for overnight.

Day 1:Moshi to Rongai gate to Simba Camp

• First of all breakfast will be taken. Then the journey will start through villages with good appearance of coffee plantations this will take up to 2-3 hour to reach Rongai gate After signing in and preparing the porters, you will start ascending on a wide path winding through fields, and then enter into rain forest. Then start to climb gently but consistently through attractive forest that shelters a variety of wildlife. The forest begins to thin as we arrive at Simba Camp with fantastic views over the Kenyan plains. Overnight and appetizing dinner at Simba camp.

Day 2: Simba Camp to Kikelewa Camp

• After an early breakfast we will have a steady ascent to the second cave where we will stop for lunch. We will 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 the dinner and overnight will be provided.

Day 3 :Kikelewa camp to Mawenzi turn hut

• On this day we will start with steep climb up grassy slopes rewarded by superb all-round views, immersed in the vast surrounding wilderness. Then the vegetation will disappear to ward the arrive at the Mawenzi Tarn Camp, which is situated in a spectacular cirque directly beneath the towering spires of Mawenzi Peak. After this hike, we will reach to the Mawenzi turn hut camp where we will also see the amazing undried Lake with no inlet as well as outlet where the overnight and dinner will be there and preparation for next day.

Day 4 :Kibo Huts camp to Uhuru Peak to Horombo Huts camp

• The day start at midnight to a light breakfast and then prepare for summit ascent. The goal is to hike before dawn so that we can reach Uhuru Peak shortly before or after sunrise. And leave the peak early, switchback up steep scree or possibly snow, and reach Gilman’s Point. At this point, you will have views of the fabled crater and its icecaps facing us. Then after 2 hours of hiking along the Kibo crater rim near the celebrated snows takes us to Kilimanjaro true summit. Uhuru Peak here we will spend some times for taking photo’s but it will depend on how you feel. After summit activities complete, we will descend back to the Kibo Huts, have lunch, rest, collect our equipment's, and continue descending. Re-crossing the saddle to the Horombo Huts. Have delicious dinner and overnight at Horombo camp.

Day 5: Horombo Huts camp to Marangu Gate to Arusha/Moshi

• After an early breakfast we will cross the lunar desert of the saddle between Kibo peak and Mawenzi After a long and enjoyable sleep, we will be awaked for breakfast and pick up, start descend through the moorland to Mandara Huts. Here we will have lunch then proceed with our triumphant recessional down through lush forest to Marangu park gate. ready to return moshi