MACHAME ROUTE
Day 1 – Travel day for people traveling outside of Africa
Day 2 – On arrive at the airport met by Big Expeditions & safaris ltd representatives for transported to your hotel/lodge.
Day 3 – Breakfast at the hotel. Meet with your guide to review the trip, chek gear and get your questions answered. You are your own to see Arusha or rest up from the flights and to try any of the area restaurant for lunch and dinner.
Day 4 - You will be picked up from your lodge.Drive from the lodge to the Kilimanjaro National Park gate at Machame.Here we will pay the park fees,sign in and meet our support staff. Today we will hike through Montane rain forest to the Machame campsite(1000 ft) this will take 5-7 hrs.
Day 5 - Today we will follow the steep ridge and cross a heath and the moorland to “Picnic rock” and the Shira plateu to the Shira Camp site (12,500 ft) 4-5 hrs.
Day 6 - Today we will head in a direction toward Kibo Peak. We will cross a broad valley,climb a rich crest and cross over scree slopes and river valley to Barranco Campsite (13,000 ft) 6-7 hrs.
Day 7 - Today we will cross the floor of Great Barranco valley, proceed up the Barranco wall to the Karanga river Campsite (13,500 ft) 3-4 hrs.
Day 8 - Today we will climb over some rock slabs to the Barafu Campsite (15,500 ft) 2-3 hrs
Day 9 - Today we will go to the summit, Uhuru Peak (19,340 ft). We start out very early in the darkness hiking up the rock scree to Stella Point and the crater rim. This takes 6-7 hrs. After a much needed break we walk along the crater rim to Uhuru Peak. The highest Point in Africa. We have a short summit celebration and we descend down to Milleniam passing the Barafu Campsite on the way down (11500 ft).
Day 10 - We descend down Mweka gate via Mweka Campsite passing through forest and return to our for a well earmed rest and shower. Celebreate your climb to Kilimanjaro with you Guides. |
