Arusha – Moshi Travel Duration: 1 Hour
Trekking Distance: ~8km / 5 miles
Trekking Time: 4 - 6 Hours
Zone: Rainforest
Accommodation: Venus Hotel
After breakfast at our overnight hotel, we will have our trekking briefing around 6:30am which will takes half an hour. We will start our journey at 7am to Marangu Gate. The Marangu Route begins at Marangu Gate (1,870 meters) on the South-East side of Mount Kilimanjaro. Typically, you will be driven to the gate from Arusha which will take over three hours to reach Marangu Gate. At the gate you will meet your trekking team, register with the Kilimanjaro National Park authorities and witness porters assembling and weighing packs of gear that they will be carrying up the mountain. This one day is a gradual trek through the Kilimanjaro rainforest and takes 5 - 7 hours to complete. We will have lunch at our camp known as Mandara A-frame Huts (2,700 meters) which come equipped with solar generated lighting, flush toilets and water piped in from a nearby mountain stream The forest, covered with mist and dripping with beards of moss, is also where most of Mt. Kilimanjaro animals are found and a group of wooden a-framed huts set in a forest clearing. We will get lunch at the camp around 1pm and then we will start our descend to Marangu Gate and sign out. We will enter in our vehicle and starts to drive back to Arusha at our hotel for dinner and overnight.