Marangu-Route 5 Tage

• The only route with permanent sleeping huts
• The shortest climb and the lowest price
• A gentle, well-made path
• Same way up and down — easy to follow
• Popular in the rainy season, when huts are a comfort

Route: Moshi – Marangu Gate – Mandara Hut – Horombo Hut – Kibo Hut – Uhuru Peak – Marangu Gate

1. Tag 1Arrival in Moshi

   We meet you at Kilimanjaro International Airport (or pick you up anywhere in Moshi or Arusha) and drive you to Maridadi Hotel. In the evening your lead guide comes to brief you on the route, check your gear and answer every question.

   • Maridadi Hotel, Moshi
2. Tag 2Marangu Gate to Mandara Hut

   After the park paperwork at Marangu Gate (1,860 m) you walk up through the rainforest, where blue and colobus monkeys often watch from the trees. After a rest at Mandara Hut, a short walk takes you to the rim of Maundi Crater for your first wide view.

   • 2,700 m
   • Gehzeit: About 5 hours · 8.3 km
   • Mandara Hut
   • B, L, D
3. Tag 3Mandara Hut to Horombo Hut

   An early breakfast, then you leave the trees behind and climb into heath and moorland. Mawenzi and Kibo come into view, with the plains of the Maasai steppe far below.

   • 3,700 m
   • Gehzeit: 5–7 hours · 12.5 km
   • Horombo Hut
   • B, L, D
4. Tag 4Horombo Hut to Kibo Hut

   A long, steady day past the Last Water Point and across the Saddle, a high desert between Mawenzi and Kibo. Early dinner and an early night — you start the summit climb around midnight.

   • 4,700 m
   • Gehzeit: 6–7 hours · 9.5 km
   • Kibo Hut
   • B, L, D
5. Tag 5Summit night: Uhuru Peak and down to Horombo

   You set off around midnight by headtorch, past Hans Meyer Cave (5,220 m), to reach Gillman's Point (5,681 m) on the crater rim at sunrise. One or two more hours along the rim bring you to Uhuru Peak, 5,895 m — the roof of Africa. Back at Kibo Hut a warm meal and a rest wait, then you walk down to Horombo.

   • 5,895 m
   • Gehzeit: 12–15 hours · 22 km
   • Horombo Hut
   • B, L, D
6. Tag 6Horombo Hut to Marangu Gate

   Down through the moorland to Mandara Hut for lunch, then through the rainforest to Marangu Gate, where you collect your summit certificate. We drive you back to Maridadi Hotel for a hot shower and a well-earned celebration.

   • 1,860 m
   • Gehzeit: About 6 hours · 20.8 km
   • Maridadi Hotel, Moshi
   • B, L
7. Tag 7Departure

   Breakfast, then a private transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your flight home. Not ready to leave? Add a safari or a few days on Zanzibar — we arrange it all.

   • B

Mahlzeiten: B = Frühstück, L = Mittagessen, D = Abendessen.

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