Best 5 Days Kilimanjaro Bike Trek Tour via Marangu Kilema Route

Day 1: MOSHI - MARANGU GATE – KILEMA GATE – HOROMBO HUT

1. Kilimanjaro National Park
   6h
   Meet your guide and embark on your transfer to the Marangu Gate, which takes about 45 minutes. The journey passes through the village of Marangu, which is located on the lower slopes of the mountain. Once you reach the park gate, all hikers are required to register at the Park office. After signing-in at the Marangu gate, we drive to the Kilema gate. Upon arrival, you will ensure that you have all your day-pack items (containing at least drinking water, your lunch pack, and extra clothing) and do a final check on your mountain bike.
   
   You will then start the first route section of 16km, (with your guide also on a mountain bike) from the Kilema gate (1 950m) to the Horombo hut (3 705m). It is important to remember that the biggest cause of altitude sickness is ascending too high too quickly. We will be stopping regularly and to give your body the maximum time to adjust to the higher altitudes. We will aim to reach Horombo hut at around 15:00 pm.

Day 2: FULL DAY HOROMBO ACCLIMATIZATION (Horombo Hut – Mawenzi Hut – Back To Horombo Hut)

1. Kilimanjaro National Park
   5h
   After breakfast you start your cycling, riding through Alpine desert, some of the areas you will be riding on a small stone up to Mawenzi hut and back to Horombo hut. Today is 90% riding on “Alpine desert vegetation, cycling distance is 10 kilometers.

Day 3: HOROMBO HUT - KIBO HUT

1. Kilimanjaro National Park
   6h
   Early wake and make sure your duffel bags are packed. After breakfast, meet your guide and we head back up to Kibo hut. Again the first 3km, with the final 7km to Kibo hut offering a good biking trail. We will get lunch, then aim to rest. At around 16h00 depending on how you feel it is possible to hike partially up the summit path to orientate yourself for the summit attempt later that night Situated in the barren Alpine desert is Kibo hut, a stone build block house which has bunk beds for 60 climbers. The summit (Uhuru Peak) is now a further 1195m up and you will make your final ascent the same night. Prepare your equipment, thermal clothing, etc for your summit. This should include the replacement of your headlamp and camera batteries and make sure you have a spare set available as well. To prevent freezing it will be wise you Summit Potters or Guide to carry your water in a thermal flask.
   Go to bed at around 19h00 and get as much rest and sleep as possible, until 22h00.

Day 4: KIBO HUT - UHURU PEAK (SUMMIT) THEN RIDE DOWN TO HOROMBO HUT

1. Kilimanjaro National Park
   10h
   At four am, you will be awakened by your guides to start the zigzag trek up long screen slop. After roughly two hours you should reach Hans Meyer’s Cave and from here the gradient gets steeper. Continue your climb for approximately another three hours to Gilman’s Point, you will take your bike from Porters and start riding to Uhuru peak, arriving at Uhuru peak spends some few minutes or take photos, and then riding down to Stella Point. After lunch ride down to Horombo. Today cycling from Kibo to Uhuru and then Kibo 15% to 20% vegetation is alpine desert and from Kibo to Horombo 100% “Alpine desert vegetation/Icecap."

Day 5: HOROMBO HUT - KILEMA GATE - MARANGU GATE TO MOSHI

1. Kilimanjaro National Park
   2h
   After breakfast, make your final riding down to the Kilema gate across the alpine and the rainforest to the Kilema gate, then you will be transferred to the Marangu gate for check out and then to the hotel in Moshi.

Pickup details

Our Clients will be picked up by our driver/guide Immediately after Airport Arrival

• Wheelchair accessible
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Service animals allowed
• Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
• Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness