Climb slowly to increase your time of getting used and increase your opportunities of getting to the peak.
To avoid high place sickness, allow a minimum of five nights, if possible even more for the climb.
Maximize your time and have pleasure in the beauty of the mountain.

Mount Kilimanjaro is Tanzania’s crown. Having a height of 5895 metres or 19,340 feet above sea level. In Africa, this peak is second to none in highness. It is also the highest freestanding mountain on the globe, and one of the largest volcanoes.

The base of the extremely large mountain has a diameter of around 70 kilometres. On a fine day, its admirable formation can be viewed from over 160 kilometres away, an da lbeit it is inly three degrees below the equator, its summit is constantly covered iwht snow and ice. Among the inhabitants of the park, are elephants, leopards, lions and colabus monkeys.

The encircling rain forests enable the fertility of the luxuriant, lower lying country, where the Chagga people cultivate their coffee, maize and bananas.

Mount Kilimanjaro can be climbed for the biggest part of the year, however it is not advisable to climb during the rainy season, which is April and May, and during the short rains in November. The peak of mount Kilimanjaro is definitely a challenge, and possibilities of meeting danger are involved, but is can be accessed by any reasonably fit person who finds pleasure in hitting, and getting to the peak will be an experience that will not be forgotten for the rest of your life.

The youngest person to get to the peak was seven years old yet the oldest to go up there was seventy eight years old. One is also able to see mount Meru when at Kilimanjaro Marangu trail.

While thousands of people scramble to get to the peak of mountain Kilimanjaro every, there are also trails off the beaten path and some technical climbs for the experienced mountaineer.

There are five major trails sup the mountain. They include; Marangu, Mweka, Umbwe, Shira and Madame. These are all liking routes.