Your day starts early with a briefing, followed by breakfast and a  45-minute drive from Moshi (910m) to the Machame Park Gate. After  registering at the gate office, you start your ascent and enter the rain  forest. You will receive a lunch pack at the gate and you can also  drink bottled water you bought at Hotel in Moshi. There is a possibility  of rain in the forest, which will transform the trail into a very  soggy, muddy and slippery experience. In the evening the porters will  boil drinking and washing water and the cook will prepare dinner before  you retire to your tent for the night. Night temperatures can already  drop to freezing point at Machame camp.                     

 You rise early at Machame camp and after breakfast, you climb an hour or  so to the top of the forest and then for 2 hours at a gentler gradient  through the moorland zone. After a short lunch and rest, you continue up  a rocky ridge onto the Shira plateau. By now you will be able to see in  an easterly direction, the Western Breach with its stunning glaciers.  You are now due west of Kibo and after a short hike, you will reach the  Shira camp at 3,840m. The porters will boil drinking and washing water,  before serving dinner. The night at this exposed camp will even be  colder than the previous night, with temperatures dropping to well below  freezing.                     

 The route now turns east into a semi desert and rocky landscape  surrounding Lava Tower, where you reach an altitude of 4630m after about  a 5 hours walk. Lunch is served in a designated area before ascending  the rocky scree path to Lava Tower (4630m). Definitely the toughest day  so far. It is normally around this point, where for the first time, some  climbers will start to feel symptoms of breathlessness, irritability  and headaches. After lunch, you descent again by almost 680m to the  Barranco camping area and after reaching the high altitude of 4600m at  Lava Tower, the true acclimatization benefit of this day becomes clear.  This descent to Barranco camp takes about 2 hours and offers great  opportunities to take some beautiful photographs of the Western Breach  and Breach Wall. The camp is situated in a valley below the Breach and  Great Barranco Wall, which should provide you with a memorable sunset  while you wait for the preparation of your dinner and overnight at  Barranco Camp 

 The morning starts with a scramble up the almost  vertical Barranco Wall to an altitude of about 4200m and after approx. 3  hours, the path now crosses through the southern slopes to reach the  Karanga Valley.  

 After breakfast, you continue in a southeasterly  direction to the junction before turning north to reach Barafu camp  (4600m) after about 4 hours. Here you take a long rest and prepare for  the midnight ascent to the summit.              

 At around midnight, you'll head in a northwesterly  direction up the southeast valley towards Stella Point on the crater  rim. The 6-hour long walk to Stella Point is a mental and physical  challenge with the steep face just below Stella posing the ultimate  challenge. The time you spend on the summit is determined by the weather  and wind conditions. The walk back to Mweka Camp from the summit can  take over 7 hours. 

 Altitude: 3,090 m –  1,650 m Hiking distance: 10 km Hiking time: 4-5 hours
After Breakfast, From the Mweka Gate, you will continue  down into the Mweka village, normally a muddy and long hour walk. In the  Mweka village drive to Hotel and you will be served a delicious hot  lunch and a long overdue hot shower. Overnight in Hotel. It is  recommended and tips are highly appreciated at the end of their trip.  Tips can be given to the guide at Hotel. This is also where successful  climbers receive their summit certificates. Those climbers who reached  Stella Point (5,685m) are issued with green certificates and those who  reached Uhuru Peak (5,895m) receive gold certificates.