About Kilimanjaro
Standing Astride the equator, yet permanently snow-capped, Mount Kilimanjaro is Africa's rooftop and the world's highest freestanding mountain. Surrounded by some of the world's greatest game reserves, Kilimanjaro towers above these hot, fertile plains like a massive sentinel, beckoning adventurers to climb her.
Many travellers are attracted to her highest point-Uhuru Peak on Kibo - which can be reached by several easy walking or scrambling tracks. The two main summits of Kilimanjaro: craggy Mawenzi, 5149m, and 'flat-altitude, semi-desert. Kilimanjaro possesses a whole range of environments including the summit glaciers, screes, cliffs, afro-alpine moorland then forests, which lead down to cultivated foothills.
PNG Trekking Adventures takes the Rongia Route approaching Kilimanjaro from the north. It is remote and one of the least hiked of the trails on Kilimanjaro. We will not experience more traffic until we reach the Kibo Camp, this is the point where the trail merges with the Marangu route for the final push to the summit.