5-Day Mount Kilimanjaro Bike Tour to Uhuru Peak via Marangu Route

• 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 includes forest and moorland.

Meal: Lunch & Dinner

Overnight stay

Accommodation: Horombo Huts

• After breakfast, start your cycling journey through the Alpine desert. You will ride across small stony terrain up to Mawenzi Hut and then return to Horombo Hut. Today is 90% riding through 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 frequently, while the final 7 km to Kibo Hut offers a good biking trail.
• Enjoy lunch and then aim to rest. At around 16:00 hours, 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 nearby streams with water. Platform toilets are located 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, thermal clothing, and other essentials 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 around 19:00 hours and try to get as much rest and sleep as possible until 22:00 hours.

Meal: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Overnight stay

Accommodation: Kibo Hut

• At 4:00 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 becomes 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 arrival at Uhuru Peak, spend a few minutes taking photos, and then ride down to Stella Point.
• After lunch, ride down to Horombo Hut. From Kibo to Horombo, the route is 100% Alpine desert vegetation / icecap.

Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Overnight stay

Accommodation: Horombo Hut

• After breakfast, make your final ride down to Kilema Gate across the alpine zone and the rainforest. From Kilema Gate, you will be transferred to Marangu Gate for check-out and then continue back to Moshi.

Meal: Breakfast & Lunch