7-Day Private Rongai Route Tour with Kilimanjaro Climbing

Moshi, Tanzania
Duration8 days
Free cancellationFull refund up to 24 hours before
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TicketMobile or paper ticket accepted
LanguagesGerman, English, French
Private tourOnly your group will participate
Pickup offeredSee the meeting and pickup details below

Overview

Experience the thrill of climbing Africa’s highest peak with this 7-day Kilimanjaro hiking tour. Regarded as the peak of Africa, this route to the summit offers acclimatization appropriate for hikers of all levels. Kitchen teams cook fully nutritious meals, porters carry your equipment, your guide will ensure you make it through this challenging but rewarding experience. With amazing views and a real sense of accomplishment to be found, this is an experience you won’t forget.

What's included

  • All Fees and Taxes
  • Pulse oximeters & Portable oxygen tanks and First aid kit
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • Camping equipment's (dining tent, table, chairs, Sleeping tents, sleeping pads, crockery & cutlery
  • Breakfast
  • Return transportation from Moshi/from the starting/finishing point on the mountain.
  • Certified Wilderness First Responder guides with professional mountain crew
  • Fair wages for the mountain crew as approved by the Kilimanjaro National Park Authority (KINAPA).
  • Portable flush toilet with a toilet tent is available for extra charge $50 for entire trek.
  • Tips for guides, porters and cook

What to expect

Day 1: Arrival – Moshi- Pre-trek Briefing
  1. 12h · Admission ticket included
    Greetings and welcome to Tanzania! A Kilele Climb representative will be at the airport to pick you up and transfer you to your hotel in Moshi. Prior to the start of the trek, you will meet your guide at your hotel in Moshi for a pre-trek briefing. It is recommended that you arrive at least one day prior to the start of the trek. During the pre-trek briefing, we will review your equipment and provide rental options at our store in Moshi.
Day 2: Moshi to Rongai gate to Simba Campsite
  1. Mount Kilimanjaro
    5h · Admission ticket included
    Elevation: 1,387/915 m to 1,950 m to 2,750 m
    Distance: 7km.
    Hiking Time: 4-5 hours
    Habitat: Montane Forest
    You will have an early breakfast. Transfer by our vehicles through many villages and coffee and plantations for 2-3-hour drive to Rongai gate (1,950 m/6,398 ft). After signing in and preparing the porters, you will start hiking on a wide path winding through fields of maize and potatoes, and then enter into montane forest. You will then start to climb gently but consistently through attractive forest that shelters a variety of wildlife. The forest begins to thin as you arrive at Simba Camp (2,600 m/8,530ft) with fantastic views over the Kenyan plains.
Day 3: Simba Campsite to Kikelewa Campsite
  1. Mount Kilimanjaro
    8h · Admission ticket included
    Elevation: 2,750 m to 3,600 m
    Distance: 18km.
    Hiking Time: 8-9 hours
    Habitat: Moorland
    After an early breakfast you will have a steady ascent to the second cave where you will stop for lunch. You leave the direct trail at this point and strike out across the moorland on a smaller path toward Mawenzi side peak.to Kikelewa Camp in a sheltered valley. At the Kikelewa Camp you will settle for your dinner and overnight rest.
Day 4: Kikelewa campsite to Mawenzi turn hut Campsite
  1. Mount Kilimanjaro
    5h · Admission ticket included
    Elevation: 3,600m to 4,330m
    Distance: 3km.
    Hiking Time: 4-5 hours
    Habitat: Semi-Desert
    After breakfast you will face a short, steep climb up grassy slopes; rewarded by superb all-round views, immersed in the vast surrounding wilderness. Soon after, you leave the vegetation behind and arrive at the Mawenzi Tarn Camp, which is situated in a spectacular cirque directly beneath the towering spires of Mawenzi Peak. After this hike, you will reach to the Mawenzi turn hut camp where you will also see the amazing undried Lake with no inlat as well as outlet here you will have lunch and rest then dinner and overnight at this camp.
Day 5: Acclimatization day - Mawenzi Turn Hut
  1. Mount Kilimanjaro
    5h · Admission ticket included
    This is your extra day on the mountain, and you will spend two nights at Mawenzi Tarn. You will hike up towards Mawenzi for a splendid acclimatization hike. Then after return back to the camp for lunch the dinner and overnight.
Day 6: Mawenzi Turn hut campsite to Kibo Huts Campsite
  1. Mount Kilimanjaro
    5h · Admission ticket included
    Elevation: 4,330m to 4,695m
    Distance: 8km.
    Hiking Time: 4-5 hours
    Habitat: Alpine Desert
    After an early breakfast you will cross the lunar desert of the saddle between Kibo peak and Mawenzi peak to Kibo Huts at the bottom of Kibo’s crater wall. You should spend the remainder of the day resting and preparing for your summit climb.
Day 7: Summit Day! Kibo Huts campsite to Uhuru Peak to Horombo Huts campsite.
  1. Mount Kilimanjaro
    11h · Admission ticket included
    • Elevation: 4,695 m to 5,895m to 3,690m
    • Distance: 4km up, 14km down.
    • Hiking Time: 10-15 hours
    • Habitat: Alpine Desert
    Wake at midnight to a light breakfast and then prepare for your summit ascent. The goal is to climb before dawn so that you can reach Uhuru Peak shortly before or after sunrise. Leave to the peak at 12; 00AM, switchback up steep scree or possibly snow, and reach Gilman’s Point on the crater rim at 5,861 m/18,640 ft between 4 and 6 AM. At this point, you will have views of the fabled crater and its icecaps facing you. Then after 2 hours of hiking along the Kibo crater rim near the celebrated snows takes you to Kilimanjaro’s true summit, Uhuru Peak here you will spend some times for taking photo’s but it will depend on how you feel. After your summit activities done, descend back to the Kibo Huts, have lunch, rest, collect your equipment, and continue on down, re-crossing the saddle to the Horombo Huts. Have dinner and overnight at Horombo camp.
Day 8: Horombo Huts campsite to Marangu Gate to Moshi
  1. Climbing Marangu Route
    6h · Admission ticket included
    • Elevation: 3,690 m to 1,830m to 1,387m
    • Distance: 18km.
    • Hiking Time: 5-6 hours
    After a long and enjoyable sleep, you will be awaked for breakfast and pack up, start descend through the moorland to Mandara Huts. Here you will have lunch then proceed with your triumphant recessional down through lush forest to Marangu park gate. Here you will sign out then after a vehicle will take you to back to the hotel where it is definitely time for certificate presentation and celebration!

Meeting and pickup

Pickup details

Pickup at the airport/hotel will be by one of our representatives who will be fully dressed in Company uniform with a hanging his Name Tag with a sign of your name printed.

Additional information

  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • 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

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