• Meet your guide at a previously agreed upon location.
• Have an early breakfast.
• Go through a pre-trek briefing with one of your Tanzanian guides. Gear check and take an overview of the route.

• Drive through Kilimanjaro’s semi-tropical foothills to the Marangu Gate, where you enter the Kilimanjaro National Park and start your climb. This day's trek takes 4-5 hours through the tropical rainforest to reach the Mandara Hut.

• Begin your second day on the mountain with a fairly steep climb through the last of the rainforest up to alpine meadows dotted with giant heather. 

• Further on, the environment changes to stunted vegetation before opening out to bleak moorland. 

• Climb approximately 1000m in altitude, so walk slowly in order to acclimatise properly. It is usually a 6 to 7 hours hike to reach the Horombo Hut. 

This will be an extra day for acclimatisation at Horombo.

• Visit Mawenzi for acclimatisation and back to Horombo Hut. 

• Hike through a terrain that becomes progressively more rocky and rugged. Giant groundsels and lobelias make their appearance. 

• Trail through the Mawenzi peak before crossing a stark, almost lunar landscape and the tundra desert of “The Saddle”. 

• Hike to Kibo Hut, which takes no more than 5 to 7 hours and breathtaking views from the saddle. 

• Begin your attempt on the Uhuru Peak at midnight.

• Start the zigzag trek up a long scree slope at midnight. 

• Reach Hans Meyer’s Cave, and from here, the gradient gets steeper. 

• Continue your climb for approximately another 3 hours to Gilman’s Point, and you will be rewarded with the dramatic sight of the rising sun reflecting off of the ice fields and craggy peaks of Mawenzi. 

• Walk along the crater ring for another couple of hours to reach your goal (Uhuru Peak), towering at 19,340 ft. 

• Congratulate yourself and your companions on this great achievement.

• Descend to Kibo Hut for rest and refreshment before continuing to Horombo Hut for your last night on the mountain.

• Have a leisurely breakfast.
• Make your final descent across the alpine meadow, past Mandara Hut and on down through the rain forest to the Marangu Gate, where your driver and vehicle will be waiting.

  • Continue your dream trip if you opt for an amazing safari extension

• Head for departure. We also provide transfers to the bus station or the Kilimanjaro International Airport.