• Embark on a one hour drive from Moshi lays to the Machame route, where you complete park formalities, meet the crew of porters and start to climb! The first section of the route climbs steadily and involves real jungle bashing through magnificent forest. This path is less well-trodden, and it is often wet and muddy underfoot.

• Make your camp at Machame Camp 3100 m.

Trekking Time: 4-6 hours / Distance: 9 km / Altitude gain: 1210 m

• The route continues on up through the forest until we are the steep ascent on the Shira Plateau, where are a rewarding view of the mountain. Looking back, you will be able to see Mt. Meru rising high above Arusha town. 

• Camp at Shira caves at 3840 m.

Trekking Time: 4-6 hours / Distance: 9 km / Altitude gain: 740 m

• Walk now on high moorland, as the landscape changes the entire character of the trek.

• Traverse the southwest side of Kilimanjaro, passing underneath the Lava Tower and the final section of the Western Breach and finally reach camp at Barranco camp 3900 m. The day has been spent at altitude up to 4600 m, but you have followed the mountaineering code of walk high sleep low to avoid altitude sickness by aiding our bodies in acclimatisation.

Trekking Time: 6-7 hours / Distance: 15 km / Altitude gain: 700 m

• Start the day by descending into the start of the Great Barranco, a huge ravine.

• Exit steeply, up what has been termed the Breakfast Wall, which divides from the southeastern slopes of Kibo. It is a climb over rocks, not technical but long and tiring.

• Pass underneath the Heim and Kersten glaciers, and head towards the Karanga Valley at 4000 m for lunch.

• Avoid walking too long in the heat of the sun today by starting at midnight steeply upwards to the summit glaciers. You will be climb scree for 5 hours but gain incredible height over a short distance. The views of the spectacular ice cliffs within the crater rim at Stell Point (5750 m) as the first rays of the sun emerge are amazing. Spectacular ice cliffs within the crater surround you, and the views to Mawenzi peak and beyond are breathtaking.

• Endure another hour of walking to your goal, the summit of Uhuru at 5895 m, the highest point. Uhuru means freedom in Swahili.

Trekking Time: 6-8 hours / Distance: 7 km / Altitude Loss: 1296 m

• Proceed on a gentle trek down through the rainforest to the Mweka Gate 1640 m, where you complete park formalities, are met by the vehicles, receive your certificate of ascent courtesy of the earned shower and a cold beer or two. 

Trekking Time 4-5 hours / Distance:10 km / Altitude Loss: 1360 m