Arrival to Kilimanjaro International Airport and transferred to Arusha town, meet and greet by Tanzania Travel Company officials at place of overnight. Briefing and the kit check to climbers just to ensure that they have all the required climbing gears. Dinner and Overnight at Point Zone Resort or Similar in Arusha – HB (Dinner and Breakfast only)

and trek upwards through the montane rainforest, characterized by dense vegetation, a muddy trail and short sections of steep climbs where you may hear the calls of many exotic birds and if we are lucky we may see blue monkeys on the forest canopy and hear the grunting calls of the magnificent black colobus monkeys with their long ‘cape’ of white hair and a flowing white tail. Our first campsite, Machame Camp, is right after the dense tree cover in an area with lower but still thick bush where Podocarpus (African yellow-wood), Hagenia and Hypericum (St John’s Wort) dominate. In the evening you may hear the unmistakable shrieking call of the tree hyrax