7 days Rongai route Kilimanjaro hiking tours trips and packages

About 7 days Rongai route Kilimanjaro hiking tours trips and packages 2026, 2027 and 2028

Packages for 2026, 2027 and 2028 that are ideal for 7 days Kilimanjaro hiking on the Rongai route. The starting point for this 7 days Kilimanjaro climbing tour trips is either Moshi or Arusha. Rongai route is the only route that approaches the mountain from the northern side near the Kenyan border the route is still new and not very popular. You may start your 7 days climb up Kilimanjaro on any date in 2026, 2027 and 2028 during the months of January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, or December.

Day 0: Arrive in Tanzania
You will be picked up at the Kilimanjaro International Airport and transferred to your hotel in Moshi town; you will meet your guide who will brief you on your upcoming trek 7 days Rongai route Kilimanjaro hiking tours trips and packages 2026, 2027 and 2028 and do an equipment check to make sure you have all the necessary mountain gear. The missing gear can be rented on this day.

Day 1: Kilimanjaro climbing from Rongai gate to Simba Camp

• Elevation: 1387/915 m to 1950 m to 2750 m
• Distance: 9 km
• Hiking Time: 4 hours
• Habitat: Montana Forest

You will have an early breakfast.s Transfer by our vehicles through many villages and coffee and plantations for 2–3-hour drive to Rongai gate (1,950 m/6,398 ft). After signing in and preparing the porters, you will start hiking on a wide path winding through fields of maize and potatoes, and then enter into Montana forest. You will then start to climb gently but consistently through attractive forest that shelters a variety of wildlife. The forest begins to thin as you arrive at Simba Camp (2,600 m/8,530ft) with fantastic views over the Kenyan plains.

Day 2: Kilimanjaro climbing from Simba Camp to Kikelewa Camp

• Elevation: 2750 m to 3600 m
• Distance: 17 km
• Hiking Time: 7 hours
• Habitat: Moorland

After an early breakfast you will have a steady ascent to the second camp where you will stop for lunch. You leave the direct trail at this point and strike out across the moorland on a smaller path toward Mawenzi side peak to Kikelewa Camp in a sheltered valley. At the Kikelewa Camp you will settle for your dinner and overnight rest.

Day 3: Kilimanjaro hiking from Kikelewa camp to Mawenzi Tarn hut

• Elevation: 3600m to 4330m
• Distance: 7 km
• Hiking Time: 4 hours
• Habitat: Semi-Desert

After breakfast you will face a short, steep climb up grassy slopes; rewarded by superb all-round views, immersed in the vast surrounding wilderness. Soon after, you leave the vegetation behind and arrive at the Mawenzi tarn Camp, which is situated in a spectacular cirque directly beneath the towering spires of Mawenzi Peak. After this hike, you will reach to the Mawenzi tarn hut camp where you will also see the amazing undried Lake with no inlet as well as outlet here you will have lunch and rest then dinner and overnight at this camp.

Day 4: Acclimatization

This is your extra day on the mountain, and you will spend two nights at Mawenzi Tarn. You will hike up towards Mawenzi for a splendid acclimatization hike. Then after return back to the camp for lunch the dinner and overnight.

Day 5: Mawenzi Tarn hut to Kibo Huts camp

• Elevation: 4330 m to 4695 m
• Distance: 8 km
• Hiking Time: 5 hours
• Habitat: Alpine Desert

After an early breakfast you will cross the lunar desert of the saddle between Kibo peak and Mawenzi peak to Kibo Huts at the bottom of Kibo’s crater wall. You should spend the remainder of the day resting and preparing for your summit climb.

Day 6: Summit Day! Kibo Huts camp to Uhuru Peak to Horombo Huts camp

• Elevation: 4695 m to 5895 m to 3690 m
• Distance: 4 km up, 14 km down
• Hiking Time: 10-15 hours
• Habitat: Alpine Desert

Wake at midnight to a light breakfast and then prepare for your summit ascent. The goal is to climb before dawn so that you can reach Uhuru Peak shortly before or after sunrise. Leave to the peak at 12; 00AM, switchback up steep scree or possibly snow, and reach Gilman’s Point on the crater rim at 5,861 m/18,640 ft between 4 and 6 AM. At this point, you will have views of the fabled crater and its icecaps facing you. Then after 2 hours of hiking along the Kibo crater rim near the celebrated snows takes you to Kilimanjaro true summit, Uhuru Peak here you will spend some times for taking photo’s but it will depend on how you feel. After your summit activities done, descend back to the Kibo Huts, have lunch, rest, collect your equipment, and continue on down, re-crossing the saddle to the Horombo Huts. Have dinner and overnight at Horombo camp.

Day 7: Horombo Huts camp to Marangu Gate to Moshi

• Elevation: 3690 m to 1830 m to 1387 m
• Distance: 18 km
• Descending Time: 5-7 hours

After a long and enjoyable sleep, you will be awaked for breakfast and pack up, start descend through the moorland to Mandara Huts. Here you will have lunch then proceed with your triumphant recessional down through lush forest to Marangu park gate. Here you will sign out then after a vehicle will take you to back to the hotel where it is definitely time for certificate presentation and celebration!