6-Day Mount Kilimanjaro Trek via Marangu Route to Uhuru Peak

• Get picked up from your hotel in Arusha and drive to Marangu Gate.

• En route, enjoy excellent views of the mountains with your Tanzania tour guide.

• Meet your Kilimanjaro guides and porters at the gate. Spot bright-coloured birds, Colobus monkeys, and other species, as well as moss, lichens, and delicate orchids in the surrounding forests.

• Start the ascent and walk for 4-5 hours through coffee plantations and thick rainforests.

Reach Mandara Hut for dinner and an overnight stay.

• After breakfast, begin with a steep climb through the rainforests.

• See Kilimanjaro's two snow-covered peaks - Kibo and the rocky Mawenzi.

• Cross a zone of open moorland and continue walking for some more time.

Have dinner and an overnight stay at Horombo Hut.

• Spend a day at Horombo and rest.

• Go for an acclimatisation walk, which leads you to the base of Mawenzi Peak, the eastern summit of Kilimanjaro. The walk will take 4-5 hours.

Return to Horombo Hut for dinner and an overnight stay.

• Start your trek at 2 am.

• After two hours, reach Hans Meyer's Cave, named after the German geologist who made the first successful ascent in 1889 and found the remains of a frozen leopard. The gradient gets steeper and, after three more hours, you reach the crater rim at Johanne's Notch.

• From here, walk to Gillman's Point (5,685 m).

• It takes another couple of hours along the crater rim to reach Uhuru (Freedom) Peak (5,896 m).

• After breakfast, walk to Marangu Gate.

• Board the vehicle and return to Moshi.

• Depart to your next destination.