7-Day Kilimanjaro Rongai Route Trek to Uhuru Peak via Mawenzi Tarn

• After an early breakfast at your hotel in Arusha or Moshi, drive for 2-3 hours through many villages and coffee plantations to Rongai Gate.
• After checking in and getting your porters ready, begin your ascent on a wide trail that winds through corn and potato fields and into the montane forest.
• You will then continue on a gentle but steady climb through an attractive forest that is home to much wildlife.
• The forest begins to thin out as you reach Simba Camp.

• After an early breakfast, ascend steadily to the Second Cave, where you will stop for lunch.
• From here, leave the direct trail and cross the moorland on a smaller path on the Mawenzi side to Kikelewa Camp, set in a sheltered valley.
• At Kikelewa Camp, settle in for your evening meal and a night's sleep.

• After breakfast, tackle a short but steep climb up grassy slopes, rewarded with magnificent panoramic views and the vast natural scenery of the area.
• Soon, 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 the Mawenzi Turn Hut camp, where you will also see the amazing undried lake with no entry or exit.
• You will have lunch and rest, then dinner, and spend the night at this camp.

• This is your bonus day on Kilimanjaro via the Rongai Route, and you will spend a second night at Mawenzi Tarn.
• You will hike toward Mawenzi for a great acclimatization walk.
• Afterward, return to camp for lunch, dinner, and an overnight stay.

• After an early breakfast, traverse the lunar saddle desert between Kibo Peak and Mawenzi Peak to Kibo Huts at the base of the Kibo Crater Wall.
• You should 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 set out before sunrise so you can reach Uhuru Peak just before or after sunrise.
• Depart around 12:00 a.m. and zigzag up steep scree, or possibly snow, to reach Gilman's Point.
• From here, you will view the iconic crater and its polar caps.
• After about 2 hours of hiking on the rim of Kibo Crater near the famous snow, you will reach the true summit of Kilimanjaro, Uhuru Peak.
• Here, you will spend a few moments taking photos, depending on how you feel.
• After your summit activities, return to Kibo Huts for 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 your descent through the moorland 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 time to receive your certificate and celebrate your departure.