Mount Kilimanjaro Marangu Route(5 Days)
Overview
The Marangu route, also known as the “Coca-Cola” route, is the oldest, most well established route on Kilimanjaro. This is the only route which offers sleeping huts in dormitory style accommodations in lieu of camping. There are 60 bunk beds each at Mandara and Kibo Huts, and 120 bunk beds at Horombo Hut. Guests are supplied with mattresses and pillows, but sleeping bags are still required. The huts have communal dining halls and basic washrooms, ranging from flushing toilets and running water at the lower huts to long drop toilets and buckets of water at Kibo Hut. Many favor Marangu because it is considered to be the easiest path on the mountain, given its gradual slope and direct path. However the short time frame of the route makes altitude acclimatization fairly difficult. Marangu is unfortunately less scenic than the other routes because the ascent and descent are along the same path. It is also the most crowded route for that reason.
Included/Exclude
- 2-night accommodation in Moshi town: before the first and the final hiking day ·
- Arrival and departure airport transfers ·
- High-quality 4-season camping equipment ·
- Experienced and professional mountain guides ·
- All park fees and rescue fees
- · All large-portioned, nutritious food and purified drinking water on the mountain
- · Guides, porters and cook salaries
- · Pulse Oximeter for daily health check
- · Crisis management and safety procedures
- · Fair and ethical treatment of porters
- · Beds (for luxury tours)
- International Flights & Visa & Insurance
- · Tips to porters and guides (300$)
- · Meals while in Moshi town
- · Items considered to be non-essential, such as alcohol, beverages, cigarettes, snacks, etc.
- · Optional Tours (for example, short safaris after your climb or Moshi day tour, etc.)
- · Oxygen tanks (included in luxury tours – can be rented in budget and standard tour)
- ·Portable toilets (included in standard & luxury tours – can be rented in budget tours)
Tour Amenities
Tour Plan
- Elevation: 1980m to 2700m
- Hiking time: 3-4 hours
- Distance: Approximately 12 kilometers
- Habitat: Mountain forest
- Meal: Lunch – Dinner
- Elevation: 2700m to 3720m
- Hiking time: 6 hours
- Distance: Approximately 15 kilometers
- Habitat: Moorland
- Meal: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner
- Elevation (Optional): 3720m to 4600m
- Meal: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner
- Elevation: 3720m to 4700m
- Hiking time: 6 hours
- Distance: Approximately 15 kilometers
- Habitat: Alpine desert
- Meal: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner
- Elevation: 4700m to 5895 m, down to 3720m
- Hiking time: 8 hours to Uhuru and 6 hours to Horombo
- Distance: Approximately 6 kilometers ascent and 21 kilometers descent
- Habitat: Stone scree and ice-capped summit
- Meal: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner
- Elevation: 3720m to 1980m
- Hiking time: 6 hours
- Distance: Approximately 17 kilometers
- Meal: Breakfast – Lunch