What is a normal typical day during Kilimanjaro trek?

The day begins early on a trek on Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania. Around 0600 hours, your personal porter/waiter will bring you hot water in a bowl for your morning wash before cooked breakfast is served in the mess tent. This is the best time for photos of spectacular views while the weather starts to clear and the skies lighten. Later, it may become cloudy or misty. By 0730 hours or a bit later, you will be on the trail while porters stay to pack up camp. Experienced hill walkers may find the initial pace vexing because of the need for acclimatization on this steep stand-alone mountain with no foothill approach range. A climbing tour of the majestic Kilimanjaro mountain calls for a special mind-set: allowing plenty of time, enjoying a gentle stroll for between four and seven hours each day, where scenery changes spectacularly between zone only a few hours apart, and much of the flora can be found nowhere else on earth. Your personal guide has time to explain what you are seeing. A packed lunch is taken on route. You will carry your own water with a sipping tube to hydrate you while you walk.

The porters will do everything possible to ensure your enjoyment and success on your Mt. Kilimanjaro trekking vacation, carrying all you do not need during the day, going ahead to set up camp and prepare an evening meal and greeting your arrival with a song. Hot water to wash and hot drinks with snacks appear before a cooked evening meal. Most days, there will be ample time to explore around the camp. Sunset arrives after 1815 hours and has a variation 30 minutes forward on the equator depending on the month, and temperatures drop fast at altitude, so you will not want to spend too long gazing at the breathtaking stars cape.

Mount Kilimanjaro Typical Day’s Schedule

The arrangement of schedule is depend on tour operator itself. Other some tours operator they arrange their schedule as follow:-

Always we know that normal day on the mountain start from waken in the morning from your tent around 7:00. The one who waken you are your porters or assistants who are responsible to prepare food for you, to carry camping equipments and other luggage. After they finish to prepare breakfast first will bring you a water to wash your face and hands. In other tours they provide porridge as a breakfast all the day during morning followed by eggs, and hot drinks such as tea, coffee or hot chocolate. Climbers are asked to communicate with the guide as regards their appetites or they will tend to choose according to their appetite then the guides should provide much more food than needed by their clients. After you finish then they will serve breakfast for you followed by coffee with bread or half cake but it depend.

They wait until you finish to drink your breakfast then they take containers and going to wash. Then after they finish they park all camping equipments in order to continue with climbing Kilimanjaro Mountain. After all being done you will start walking around 8:00. Normally the person walking capacity can take four to six hours per day. When you are trekking your guides will have responsible to show you the environment and to motivate you to climb in order to make you strong when you are climbing the highest freestanding mountain in Africa Tanzania. You should make sure every climber has his own water when trekking until move to the camp where extra water are available.

During afternoon
At 2:00 the guides will tell you to return at the camp in order for resting and getting lunch. After return to the camp you will get the snacks before getting lunch. The food is prepared by your cookers who are also porters. Lunch is normally packed by guides and porters that they will carry in your daypack. It normally consists of a egg, sandwiches, a chicken, fresh fruit and a soft drink like fresh juice.

During evening
In evening before the time of dinner coffee is provided to all climbers in order to remove tiredness and to get more energy with tea also is served with biscuits, peanuts and etc.

Night time
Dinner begins with soup, followed by a main foods including chicken, meat, vegetable some cabbage, rice, potatoes, with fresh fruit. Breakfast includes tea, coffee, fresh milk, eggs, toast, porridge, bread, fruits, sausages and etc. next days with hot soups, bread, vegetables, fruits, salad, cookies, beef, chicken, fish, potatoes, rice.

Climbing a mountain is not the time to have a diet. Your body will need all three nutrient groups to make to summit Kilimanjaro very easier and faster. These foods that are easy to digest provide a quick source of energy while you are climbing. Proteins and healthy take longer to digest and provide sustained energy, aid in the body during your climbing time, you will be provided with breakfast, lunch and dinner each day spent on the mountain. The food which most advised to be used on mountain climbing are carbohydrate foods because are mostly easily to be digested. Which are rice, potatoes and pasta Fruits and vegetables which should be eaten at every meal.

Table of contents

• Schedule For Normal Days On Kilimanjaro
o Waking Up
o Breakfast
o Routine Health Check-Ups
o Trekking
o Lunch
o In The Afternoon
o Arrival At Camp
o Dinner
o Brief About The Next Day
• Schedule For Summit Night On Kilimanjaro

Schedule for normal days

Waking Up Each morning, our Kilimanjaro Travel Guides will wake you up between 6:00 and 6:30. They will offer you a hot drink and warm water for personal washing.
NB: You will mostly just be washing your face and your hands since there are no shower facilities on the mountain. Freshen up then pack your kits and other belongings. Breakfast Your breakfast would be served between 7:00 and 7:30. You’ll be having your breakfast in our spacious dining tents equipped with tables, chairs, dinnerware, and silverware.Enjoy your warm breakfast while our team packs your tent. Our Climb Kilimanjaro Guide will brief you on the plan for the day’s Kilimanjaro Climb during your breakfast. After that get ready to move to the next camp.

Routine Health Checkups After breakfast, a basic health check-up will be done by our guides. We will monitor your vitals and update your health chat. Our experts will measure our heartbeat and the oxygen saturation in our blood by putting a simple clip (pulse oximeter) on our index finger. We urge you to be honest and upfront with our experts. They will also answer any questions or concerns you may have for the rest day climbing.

Ideally, you will start Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro a little after 8 am. Your Kilimanjaro Crew will finish cleaning up the camping site as you set off. Trekking Ideally, you’ll begin your Kilimanjaro Climb between 8:00 and 8:30 each morning. Your trekking hours hugely depend upon the route and the day but on most days you’ll trek for around 4 to 7 hours. Our Kilimanjaro Crew will finish cleaning up the camping site as you set off. They will clean the campsite, pack equipment, tents and then trek ahead of you to prepare food, arrange water and set up the next camp. Even if the staff will leave the campsite later than you, then also they will reach before you in the next camp location. So expect to find your tent almost ready upon arrival.

Lunch Firstly we’ll provide you some warm water upon your arrival at the next camp (which has been set up before your arrival). After that, you will be served coffee, tea, or hot chocolate with snacks in your mess tent. Then you will be served a delicious hot lunch. On longer days you will have either a lunch box or picnic lunch halfway. If the weather permits, we set a table outside to enjoy nature. After lunch, you’ll rest a bit before commencing the trek towards your next camp.

In The Afternoon Rainfall is quite common especially during the afternoon and at lower altitudes. Hence, we strongly recommend you to carry waterproof or at least trench coats, rain capes or an umbrella (sounds funny, but it’s really useful!). You will reach your next camp by the late afternoon. After that, you unpack, relax, and enjoy our afternoon snack, which usually included popcorn or peanuts and a hot drink. You can utilize the time in the camps until dinner to chat with other travelers or to discover the area. Card, as well as board games, can also be a nice pastime.

Arrival At Camp Our Kilimanjaro Porters will provide hot water for you to freshen up as soon as you arrive at the camp. Afterward, you can enjoy some coffee, tea, or hot chocolate with snacks in the mess tent. Dinner Dinner is served around 7:00 pm in our spacious mess tents equipped with tables, chairs, dinnerware, and silverware.

After that you’re free to socialize with your fellow climbers, guides, and porters; you can also spend the time reading or just relaxing after a long day. The only accommodation option on all routes is sleeping in tents at designated campsites. Not including the Marangu Route where you’ll be sleeping in mountain huts. We use waterproof sleeping tents for all climbers and staff

Brief About The Next Day

Every evening after the meal, your guide will brief you on the subsequent day's schedule. A regular briefing will entail things like what the next day would look like in terms of altitude, walking distance, and “dress code” for the night.

Schedule For Summit Night
Kilimanjaro Summit attempt will be tough. It will be a 12-16 hour hike. But this mammoth effort is what makes climbing Kilimanjaro an achievement. It begins very early as Kilimanjaro guides try to time their trekking party to reach Uhuru Peak at sunrise. After you arrive at the Base Camp for the final preparation, you will have an early dinner followed by our regular briefing on how to dress for the summit. On this day you will go to bed earlier than on other days. Our Kilimanjaro Guide will wake you up a little after 11:00 p.m. then you will get ready and have a light snack. You will be beginning your summit attempt at midnight.

You’ll begin your ascend in the cold and windy darkness. It goes without saying that under these conditions, climbing is difficult, especially on loose rock and very steep slopes. You’ll reach the Uhuru peak summit just in time of dawn. There you will enjoy the awesome sunrise and the view up from the top. After the due celebrations and superb clicks, you’ll begin your descent to either Barafu or Kibo Hut. There, you‘ll be eating lunch. Then rest a bit to regain your strength.

It is unwise to descend immediately after summiting. Because that is where most people get tired. You need to consider last night's lack of sleep, the expenditure of energy required for the successful summit to the peak, and especially the strain put up by long-distance covered that day. After a while, we’ll continue the descent to a much lower camp. This is completely normal & Africa Natural Tours is always with you to make your Typical Day On Kilimanjaro with the Ascent & Descent successful.