6-Day Kilimanjaro Rongai Route Trek to Uhuru Peak from Moshi

• You will have an early breakfast at your hotel.
• Transfer by vehicle through many villages and coffee plantations for a 2-3-hour drive to Rongai.
• After checking in and preparing the porters, begin your 6-day Rongai trek on a broad trail that winds through corn and potato fields before entering the montane forest.
• You then begin a gentle but steady walk through an attractive forest that is home to various wildlife.
• The forest gradually opens up as you reach Simba Camp, with fantastic views across the Kenyan plains.

• After an early breakfast, you will ascend steadily to the Second Cave near Kikelewa Camp, where you will stop for lunch.
• At this point, you leave the direct path and cross the moor on a smaller trail toward the Mawenzi side summit, continuing to Kikelewa Camp in a sheltered valley.
• At Kikelewa Camp, you will enjoy your evening meal and spend the night.

• After breakfast, take a short but steep hike up grassy slopes, rewarded with magnificent panoramic views and immersion in the area's vast natural scenery.
• Soon, you leave the bush behind and arrive at Mawenzi Tarn Camp, nestled in a spectacular cirque just below the soaring peaks of Mawenzi Peak.
• After this trek, you will reach Mawenzi Turn Hut Camp, where you will also see the amazing undried lake with no entry or exit.
• You will have lunch, rest, dinner, and spend the night at this camp.

• After an early breakfast, traverse the lunar saddle desert between Kibo Peak and Mawenzi Peak to Kibo Huts at the foot of the Kibo Crater Wall.
• You will spend the rest of the day resting and preparing for your summit trek.

• Wake up at midnight for a light breakfast, then prepare to climb to the summit.
• The goal is to depart before sunrise so you can reach Uhuru Peak just before or after sunrise.
• Leave camp at 12:00 a.m. and climb steep scree, or possibly snow, to reach Gilman's Point.
• At this point, you will see the iconic crater and its polar caps.
• After 2 hours of hiking on the rim of the Kibo Crater near the famous snow, you will reach the actual summit of Kilimanjaro, Uhuru Peak.
• Here, you will spend a few moments taking photos, depending on how you feel.
• After your summit activities, you will return to Kibo Huts, have lunch, rest, collect your gear, and continue the descent across the saddle to Horombo Huts.

Dinner and overnight at Horombo Camp.

• After a long and comfortable sleep, you will be woken for breakfast and begin the descent through the moor to Mandara Huts.
• Here, you will have lunch and then continue your triumphant descent through the lush forest to Marangu Gate.
• After checking out, a vehicle will take you back to the hotel, where it is definitely time to present your certificate and celebrate before departure.