8-Day Mount Kilimanjaro Machame Route Trek to Uhuru Peak

• Meet at the airport in Arusha, Tanzania, and transfer to the hotel in Moshi.
• If you arrive at the airport in Nairobi, Kenya, make an independent bus transfer by local transport to the city of Arusha or directly to the city of Moshi to the hotel. If necessary, we can arrange an individual Nairobi-Moshi transfer. The total travel time from Nairobi is about 5 hours.
• Our representative will meet the arriving group at the agreed place.
• Accommodation is in a 3-star hotel with private facilities in the city of Moshi. Meals are at your own expense.
• A thorough briefing on the upcoming ascent will be given, and the necessary equipment will be prepared.

Overnight stay at the hotel.

• Transfer to Machame Gate, the starting point at 1800 m.
• Registration of the climbing group on Kilimanjaro, followed by distribution of personal cargo and necessary equipment among the porters. Your load carried by a porter must not exceed 20 kg.
• Start the trek to Machame Hut Camp at 3000 m.
• The trail passes through a zone of picturesque tropical forest, gradually turning into a zone of bushes. Distance: 18 km, approximately 7 hours.
• Accommodation in Machame Camp in 2-person tents.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

• Trek to Shira Hut Camp at 3800 m.
• The trail first passes through a zone of bushes, and closer to the camp it enters alpine meadows overgrown with giant lobelia. Distance: 9 km, approximately 6 hours.
• Accommodation in Shira Camp in 2-person tents.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

• Trek to Barranco Camp at 3900 m.
• The trail follows a steeper and rockier slope, climbs to an altitude of 4500 m, and then descends. Distance: 15 km, approximately 7 hours.
• Accommodation in Barranco Camp in 2-person tents.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

• Trek to the assault camp, Barafu Hut, at 4800 m.
• The trail passes through desert and rocky terrain. Distance: 13 km, approximately 7 hours.
• Accommodation in Barafu Camp in 2-person tents.
• Rest before the summit attempt until 24:00.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

• Climb Kilimanjaro. At 01:00, the summit attempt on the giant Kilimanjaro crater begins. The average time for the ascent is 6-7 hours.
• Meet the dawn at Uhuru Peak, the highest point in Africa at 5895 m. If you wish, you can descend 100 m into the crater and walk to the glaciers.
• Return to Barafu Hut at 4800 m, collect the camp, and continue to Mweka Camp at 3700 m, which takes about 4-5 hours.
• Accommodation in Mweka Camp in 2-person tents.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

• Descend to the village of Mweka, the finishing point of the Kilimanjaro climb at 1500 m. The trail goes through a picturesque rainforest zone. Distance: 10 km, approximately 4 hours. At the exit, the group members who reached the summit receive a well-deserved certificate for climbing the highest peak in Africa - Uhuru Peak.
• Farewell to the attendants. It is customary to give a tip.
• Transfer and accommodation in a 3-star hotel in the city of Moshi.
• Free time to rest.

• Transfer by comfortable transport to the airport.

Meals: Breakfast.