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

• Pick up from the hotel at 8:30 a.m.
• Drive through Kilimanjaro's semi-tropical foothills to Marangu Gate, where you will spend some time registering and obtaining the permit. Then continue to Kilema Gate to enter Kilimanjaro National Park and start 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 Hut

Meal: Lunch and dinner

Overnight stay

• After breakfast, start your cycling ride through the Alpine desert. You will ride over a small stony area up to Mawenzi Hut and then return to Horombo Hut. Today is 90% riding on Alpine desert vegetation, and the cycling distance is 10 kilometres.

Distance Covered: 5.7 miles

Time to be used: 6-7 hours

Accommodation: Horombo Hut

Meal: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

• 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 quite a lot, 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 streams with water nearby. There are platform toilets behind the hut. The summit, Uhuru Peak, is now 1195 m above you, 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.

• At 4:00 a.m., your guides will wake you to start the zigzag trek up the long scree slope.
• After roughly two hours, you should reach Hans Meyer's Cave, and the gradient becomes steeper from here.
• Continue your climb for approximately another three hours to Gilman's Point. 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, continue riding down to Horombo Hut.
  • From Kibo to Horombo, the vegetation is 100% Alpine desert/icecap.

Accommodation: Horombo Hut

Meal: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Overnight stay

• 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 continue back to Moshi.

Meal: Breakfast and lunch