8 Days Mount Kilimanjaro Trkking Lemosho Route

DAY 1 MOSHI TO LONDOROSI GATE TO BIG TREE CAMPSITE Elevation: 1,200 m to 1,950 m to 2,850 m Distance: 9 km Hiking Time: 3-4 hours Habitat: Montane Forest After breakfast, we will pick you up from your hotel your hotel and transport you to Londorosi Gate for registration. After this formality, you board the vehicle  and drive again to Lemosho Glade. From this point you will start the trek across undisturbed montane forest decorated with black and white colobus monkeys to the camp where dinner and overnight will take place. DAY 2 BIG TREE CAMPSITE TO SHIRA ONE CAMPSITE Elevation(m): 2850m to 3500m Distance: 13km Hiking time: 8 hours Habitat: Moorland and heather land This is an acclimatization trek because you will gain over 650m by starting walking across a beautiful valley outside Shira’s caldera rim (3600m). After few hours you will reach into Shira Caldera. A high altitude desert, Shira is the one among the three peaks which erupted in Kilimanjaro ecosystem. The peak later collapsed and formed a crater which eventually became filled with the lava flow from Kibo Peak. Its rim is eroded and blasted away by weather and volcanic action. Camp and overnight at 3500m elevation at the Shira One Cmpsite. DAY 3 SHIRA ONE CAMPSITE TO SHIRA TWO CAMPSITE Elevation: 3500m to 3800m Distance: 7km Hiking time: 5-6 hours Habitat: Moorland and rocky This day you will trek to east across Shira Plateau visiting Cathedral Peak (3850m) for acclimatization. Arriving at this peak you will find spectacular views of Mt. Meru and Kibo Peak. We then continue trekking to Shira Two Camp where we will stay for dinner and overnight place. DAY 4 SHIRA TWO CAMPSITE TO BARRANCO CAMPSITE Elevation: 3800m to 3950m Distance: 13km Hiking time: 7-8 hours Habitat: Moorland This is long acclimatization day. You will have an early breakfast then trek east to a junction leading to Lava Tower Rock 4600m for acclimatization. Afterwards, you will descend down to Barranco Campsite for dinner and overnight. DAY 5 BARRANCO CAMPSITE TO BARAFU CAMPSITE Elevation: 3950m to 3900m Distance: 6 km Hiking time: 4-5 hours. Habitat: Moorland Today is long day walk. In the morning you will start climbing Barranco Wall and reach 4200m for acclimatization and continue crossing ridges and valleys to Karanga Campsite for hot lunch. After lunch you will proceed to Barafu Campsite for  dinner and overnight before the midnight ascent to the summit. DAY 6 BARAFU HUT CAMPSITE TO UHURU PEAK TO CRATER CAMPSITE Elevation: 4620m to 5895m to 3650m Distance: 10km Hiking time: 7-8 hours Habitat: Desert and ice After breakfast you will departure for the summit  switchback up steep scree or possibly snow, and reach Stella Point on the crater rim (5,861 m/18,640 ft) At this point you will be having the views of the fabled crater and its icecaps facing you. Then after 1 hour of hiking along the Kibo’s crater rim near the celebrated snows takes you to Kilimanjaro true summit, Uhuru Peak here you will spend some minutes for taking photos. After your summit activities, you will descend down to Crater Camp for your dinner and overnight. DAY 7 CRATER CAMPSITE TO ASH PIT TO MWEKA HUT CAMPSITE Elevation: 5650m to 5750m to 3100m Distance: 12km Hiking time: 7 -8 hours Habitat: Desert,  ice,  moorland, and forest. After breakfast  you will firstlascend 100m to the rim of Ash Pit  then descend back to the Barafu Huts Campsite, for lunch, and continue down through moorland and heath zone to Mweka Huts Campsite. Dinner and overnight at Mweka Hut Campsite. DAY 8 MWEKA HUT CAMPSITE TO MWEKA GATE Elevation: 3100m to 1700m Distance: 9k Descending time: 3-4 hours Habitat: Montane forest Today is your last day on the mountain. After breakfast, you will descend down to Mweka Gate walking across montane forest. This descent will take 3-4 hours. At the gate you will sign out and board the vehicle, ready for the transfer back to your hotel for your certificate presentation and celebration.