Itinerary

1. Day 1: Moshi - Marangu Gate – Kilema Gate – Horombo Hut

   • You will be picked up from the hotel at 8:30 am, this morning we drive through Kilimanjaro's semi-tropical foothills to Marangu gate, spend some minutes for registrations and get the permit and then drive to Kilema gate and enter Kilimanjaro National park and start the riding up to Horombo Hut, today is 100% cycling by bike. The cycling distance is19 kilometres and the vegetation is forest and moorland.

   Accommodation: Horombo Huts

   Meal: Lunch & Dinner 

   Overnight stay

2. Day 2: Horombo Hut – Mawenzi Hut -Horombo Hut

   • After breakfast, you start your cycling, riding through the Alpine desert, some of the areas you will be riding on small stones up to Mawenzi hut and back to Horombo hut. Today is 90% riding on “Alpine desert vegetation, cycling distance is 10 kilometres.

   Distance Covered: 5.7 miles

   Time to be used: 6 - 7 hours

   Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

   Accommodation: Horombo Hut

3. Day 3: Horombo Hut - Kibo Hut

   • Early wake and make sure your duffel bags are packed and ready to go. 
   • After breakfast, meet your guide and we head back up to Kibo hut. Again, the first 3km would require you to push and carry your bike a lot, with the final 7km to Kibo hut offering a good biking trail. 
   • We will enjoy lunch and then aim to rest. At around 16h00 depending on how you feel it is possible to hike partially up the summit path to orientate yourself for the summit attempt later that night. Situated in the barren Alpine desert is Kibo hut, a stone build block house which has bunk beds for 60 climbers, but no streams with water nearby. There are platform toilets behind the hut. The summit (Uhuru Peak) is now a further 1195m up and you will make your final ascent the same night. 
   • Prepare your equipment, thermal clothing etc for your summit bid. This should include the replacement of your headlamp and camera batteries and make sure you have a spare set available as well. To prevent freezing it will be wise to carry your water in a thermal flask. 
   • Go to bed at about 19h00 and try to get as much rest and sleep as possible, until 22h00.

   Meal: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

   Overnight stay

   Kibo Hut

4. Day 4: Kibo Hut - Summit - Horombo Hut

   • At four am, you will be awakened by your guides to start the zigzag trek up long screen slop. 
   • After roughly two hours, you should reach Hans Meyer’s Cave and from here the gradient gets steeper. 
   • Continue your climb for approximately another three hours to Gilman’s Point, you will take your bike from Porters and start riding to Uhuru peak, arriving at Uhuru peak spends some few minutes or take photos and then riding down to Stella Point. 
   • After lunch ride down to Horombo Today cycling from Kibo to Uhuru and then Kibo 15% to 20% vegetation is alpine desert and from Kibo to Horombo 100% “Alpine desert vegetation /Icecap.

   Meal: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

   Overnight stay

   Horombo Hut

5. Dy 5: Horombo Hut - Kilema Gate - Marangu Gate - Moshi

   • After breakfast, make your final riding down to Kilema gate across the alpine and the rainforest to Kilema gate, then you will be transferred to Marangu gate for check out and then to the hotel in Moshi.