5-Day Kilimanjaro Mountain Bike Tour to Uhuru Peak via Marangu

• You will be picked up from the hotel at 8:30 am. This morning, drive through Kilimanjaro's semi-tropical foothills to Marangu Gate, where you will spend some time on registration and permit formalities. Then continue to Kilema Gate, enter Kilimanjaro National Park, and begin riding up to Horombo Hut. Today is 100% cycling by bike. The cycling distance is 19 kilometres, and the vegetation is forest and moorland.

Accommodation: Horombo Huts

Meal: Lunch & Dinner

Overnight stay

• After breakfast, start your cycling ride through the alpine desert. In some areas, you will be riding over small stones on the way up to Mawenzi Hut before returning to Horombo Hut. Today is 90% riding in alpine desert vegetation, and the cycling distance is 10 kilometres.

Distance Covered: 5.7 miles

Time to be used: 6 - 7 hours

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Accommodation: Horombo Hut

• Wake up early and make sure your duffel bags are packed and ready to go.
• After breakfast, meet your guide and head back up to Kibo Hut. Again, the first 3 km will require you to push and carry your bike a lot, while the final 7 km to Kibo Hut offers a good biking trail.
• 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 orient yourself for the summit attempt later that night. Situated in the barren alpine desert, Kibo Hut is a stone-built block house with bunk beds for 60 climbers, but there are no streams with water nearby. There are platform toilets behind the hut. The summit, Uhuru Peak, is now a further 1195 m up, and you will make your final ascent the same night.
• Prepare your equipment and thermal clothing for your summit bid. This should include replacing your headlamp and camera batteries, and making sure you have a spare set available as well. To prevent freezing, it is 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

• At four am, you will be awakened by your guides to start the zigzag trek up the long scree slope.
• 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. There, you will take your bike from the porters and start riding to Uhuru Peak. Upon arriving at Uhuru Peak, spend a few minutes there or take photos, and then ride down to Stella Point.
• After lunch, ride down to Horombo. Today, cycling from Kibo to Uhuru and then back to Kibo is 15% to 20% in alpine desert vegetation, and from Kibo to Horombo it is 100% alpine desert vegetation / icecap.

Meal: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Overnight stay

Horombo Hut

• After breakfast, make your final ride down to Kilema Gate across the alpine zone and the rainforest. Then you will be transferred to Marangu Gate for check-out and onward to the hotel in Moshi.