Day 1 | Marangu/Kilema Gate – Horombo Hut
You will be picked from your Hotel at 8:30 am, This morning we drive through Kilimanjaro’s semi-tropical foothills to Marangu Gate, Spend some minutes for registrations and get the permit and then drive to Kilema gate and enter Kilimanjaro National park and start the riding, Up to Horombo H Today is 100% cycling by bike.
Cycling distance 19 Vegetation: Forest and Moorland
Day 2 | Full Day Horombo Acclimatization
After breakfast you start your cycling, riding through Alpine desert, some of the areas you will riding on small stone, up to Mawenzi Hut and back to Horombo
Today is 90% riding Vegetation “Alpine desert Cycling distance: 10 Km
Day 3| Horombo – Kibo Hut (4703 M)
After breakfast you will continue with riding to Kibo Hut, you will ride on small stone in most areas
Cycling today is 90%. Vegetation: Alpine Desert
Day 4| Kibo Hut – Summit (5895 M) – Horombo Hut (3720 M)
At 4 am, you will be awakened by your guides to start the zigzag trek up a long screen slop After roughly two hours you should reach Hans Meyer’s Cave and from here the gradient gets steeper. Continue your climb for approximately another 3 hours to Gilman’s Point, You will take your bike from Porters and start riding to Uhuru peak, arriving at Uhuru peak spends some few minutes or photos and then riding down to Stella Point. After lunch ride down to Horombo
Today cycling, from Kibo to Uhuru and then Kibo 15%-20%, from Kibo to Horombo 100%. Vegetation “Alpine desert /Icecap
Day 5 | Horombo Hut (3720 M) –Kilema gate (1800 M)
After a leisurely breakfast, make your final riding down to Kilema gate across the alpine and the rainforest to Kilema gate, then you will be transferred to Marangu gate for check out and then drive back to your Hotel.
UMBWE ROUTE - KILIMANJARO HIKING
The Kilema route is a special route set aside for mountain bike adventures and cycling on Mount Kilimanjaro. Before this route was established, most routes were for walking, hiking, or trekking on foot. Most mountain bikers used the Marangu route to climb to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, the Uhuru Peak but it used to be a major inconvenience, mixing up cyclers and climbers on foot. Kilema route measures (19km) long and cyclists usually meet their porters at Horombo before they embark on their bicycle journey to the summit. Cyclists that do not aim to reach the top of the mountain at Uhuru Peak, Kilimanjaro’s summit, begin their mountain bike adventure from Londorossi gate or from Morum Picnic Site then back to Morum enduring a combined a 44km long ride.
The Kilema Route is a new route introduced recently specifically for biking tours or cycling up Mount Kilimanjaro. Just like the other routes on the mountain, it is recommended to add an extra day or extra time for acclimatization to minimize the effects of altitude sickness.
-Private transport to & from Kilimanjaro International Airport to your accommodations in
Moshi.
-2 nights of accommodation in Moshi.
-Transportation to & from the Kilimanjaro gate.
-Park entry fees.
-Camping fees.
-Team Kilimanjaro Rescue fees.
-18% VAT on tour fees & services.
-4 Season mountain tents.
-Double layered Sleeping Mats.
-Friendly and professional mountain guides, cook and porters.
-3 hot meals daily while on the mountain.
-Enough treated & filtered drinking water throughout the trek.
-Hot water for washing.
-Fair wages for the mountain crew as approved by the Kilimanjaro National Park Authority
(KINAPA), Kilimanjaro Association of Tour Operators (KIATO).
-Government taxes.
-Portable oxygen tanks & ox meter.
-Emergency first-aid kit.
-Mountain Bike and Mountain Guide
-Lunches, dinners and drinks at your hotel before and after climb.
-Travel insurance.
-Portable flush toilet with a toilet tent is available for extra charges $ 70 for the entire trek.
-Flights.
-Laundry (Available at hotel).
-Personal items and toiletries.
-Tips for guides, porters and cook (this is a guide to tipping on the mountain).
*Tips on Mountain Kilimanjaro are recommended for group sharing as follows:
-Guide $20/guide/day
-Cook $15/day
-Porters $10/porter/day
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