Take advantage of our affordable group rates and join our daily expeditions to the roof of Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro with the help of our professional and skilled mountain guides. We give you the opportunity to choose the best route of your interest depending on your holiday duration and budget.
Mt. Kilimanjaro Climbing
Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa and one of the largest extinct volcanoes, It can be climbed at any time of the year but best time is July to February. Mount Kilimanjaro climbing is possible during any other season of the year because our Mountain guides know how to go about the mountain with hikkers.The mountain itself is 5895 meters high and is made up of three different volcanic peaks: Kibo, Mawenzi and Shira.
A journey to the roof of Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro, is an exploration of a lifetime and not merely a climb.
Asante Tanzania Safaris, with its experienced and professional mountain guides and porters, take the initiative to take you to the “roof of Africa (.5895m).The peak can be accessed through different route, but the most popular are Marangu, Machame, Rongai & Lemosho.
Tanzania Mount Kilimanjaro’s name is a mystery enveloped in clouds. In Tanzania, locals call it Mountain of Light, Mountain of Greatness or Mountain of Caravans. The local people, the Wachagga, don't even have a name for the whole massif, only Kipoo (now known as Kibo) for the familiar snowy peak that make Mount Kilimanjaro climbers call it the summit of Africa.
Kilimanjaro, is a metaphor for the outstanding attraction and beauty of East Africa. Hikers see it and understand its compelling mountain climbing adventures.
Mount Kilimanjaro is not only the highest peak on the African continent; it is also the tallest free-standing mountain in the world.
Mount Kilimanjaro is one of the world's most accessible high summits, a beacon for mountain climbers from around the world. Most mount Kilimanjaro climbers reach the crater rim with little more than a mountain walking stick, proper mountain clothing and mountain climbing determination.
And those who reach Uhuru Point, the actual mount Kilimanjaro summit, or Gillman's Point on the lip of crater, will have earned their climbing certificates, a lifetime mountain climbing adventure memory.
Apart from Mount Kilimanjaro trekking, and its summit, The ascent of this gigantic mountain slopes is a huge climatic world tour, from the tropics to the Arctic.
Even before you cross the mount Kilimanjaro national park boundary at 2,700m , the cultivated footslopes give way to mount Kilimanjaro lush montane forest, inhabited by elusive elephant, leopard, buffalo, the endangered Abbot's duiker, and other small antelope and primates. Higher still lies the moorland zone.
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