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Climbing The Mount Via Machame Route
  • Tour Category

    Group Tour

  • Tour Types

    Climbing

  • Duration

    7 Days

  • Activity Level

    Hard

  • Language

    English

Description

Join the trekking program of Mount Kilimanjaro via the Machame route which takes you through the rainforests which are home to various flora and fauna. 

  • Machame gate to machame hut expand_more
    • Be picked up from the hotel at 0900am after your breakfast to Machame gate where you will have your registration. Meet your porters and cook.

    • Start hiking through the rainforest, which is a dense forest. 

    • Enjoy viewing different flora and fauna.


  • Machame hut to Shira camp expand_more


    • This is the shortest day but steeper one. Wake up and get breakfast, start your hiking for the second day where you will trek several uphill. 

    • Here there are several viewpoints from which you can see the plains and forests below and Kibo peak above and also Mount Meru which is the second-highest mountain in Tanzania and also Kilimanjaro famous high altitude plants, Senecio Kilimanjaro and Lobelia deckenii.


  • SHIRA CAMP TO BARRANCO CAMP expand_more
    • Have breakfast and get start hiking. We call it the acclimatisation day because we have to hike to the lava tower, which is 14000ft/4640m before the descent to Barranco camp 12960ft/3950m camp and overnight. 

    • Take in the beautiful view of Mount Kilimanjaro.


  • BARRANCO CAMP TO KARANGA CAMP expand_more
    • After breakfast, leave Barranco Camp climbing Barranco wall, nicknamed as Breakfast Wall because after breakfast you have to climb the wall (not technical climbing). 

    • Hike up and down to Karanga camp, where we can get a hot lunch, rest, and acclimatise by the time you will be given from guide.


  • KARANGA CAMP TO BARAFU CAMP expand_more
    • After breakfast, begin the hike to Barafu Camp. 

    • View several Kibo's glaciers, Mawenzi Peak as well as the junction that connects the descent route which is Mweka route. 

    • Sleep as soon as you finish dinner as you will awake before midnight for your summit hike, and take all your warm gears for hiking to the summit.



  • SUMMIT DAY expand_more
    • At midnight, we wake up at 11:30 pm and get a light breakfast before we start hiking to the summit. 

    • Start at 12:00 am, and it will take 5 hours to reach to the Stella point 14000ft/ 5730m which is at the rim of the crater. And from Stella point to UHURU Peak the highest peak of Kilimanjaro mountain, it will take one-hour hiking through the crater's rim. 

    • Stay at the Summit at the sunrise time 6:00 am to 7:00 am, where you will get time to enjoy and take pictures. 

    • Afterwards, start to descend back to Barafu Camp, where we will have lunch packing and keep descending to Mweka camp where you will have dinner and rest.



  • DESCENDING DAY TO MWEKA GATE BACK TO THE HOTEL expand_more
    • After camping and overnight at Mweka camp, start the descent to Mweka gate crossing the rainforest again and get back to the hotel from Mweka gate.



Cancellation Policy

For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -

Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price Details
Adult
1 To 10 USD 1880 Per Person

This is a group tour

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USD 1880 / person