8-Day Mount Kilimanjaro Trek via Machame Route to Uhuru Peak

• Get picked up from Kilimanjaro Airport and transfer to Arusha town for an overnight stay at your designated hotel.

• After a transfer to the park gate, a 7-hour walk through the forest takes you to Machame Hut.

• Camp throughout the climb, and your crew will take good care of you, erecting and dismantling the camp and providing you with tasty, filling food.

Full board.

To Machame Hut, 3000m.

• Begin with an initial steep climb followed by a gentle incline.

• After lunch, a descent and ascent bring you to the camp.

Walking time approx. 5 hours. Full board.

To Shira Cave, 3800m.

• Climb slowly for some 5 km.

• Then climb high to 4600m to Lava Tower and stay for 15 to 20 minutes for acclimatisation, then descend to Barranco Camp at 3900m. This is a fairly strenuous day as the altitude begins to tell.

Walking time approx. 8 hours. Full board.

To Barranco Wall, 3900m.

• Climb Barranco Wall to Karanga and get excellent views of the West Breach.

• Proceed to Barafu Camp.

Full board.

To Barafu Camp, 4600m.

• Wake at about midnight for the torchlight climb to Stella Point, approximately 7 hours with rest stops, and finally continue to the highest point, Uhuru Peak, with fantastic views of glaciers and plains far below.

• Descend to Mweka or High Camp, arriving in the late afternoon.

Full board.

Barafu to Uhuru, 5895m; to Mweka, 3100m.

• A descent of some 4 hours takes you to Mweka Village, where you are met and transferred back to the Keys Hotel in Moshi.

Full board.

• After breakfast at your lodge, you will be picked up and transferred to the airport to catch your flight back home.