2 days · Trek 2-Day Mount Meru Trek
Mount Meru, Arusha, Tanzania · challenging
A 2 day Mount Meru trek through Arusha National Park with an armed ranger, hut stay, all meals and park fees.
From, per person
$450
Combination
Mount Meru then Kilimanjaro
Warm up on Meru, then go for the roof of Africa.
Build your sequence
Mount Meru and Kilimanjaro
Mount MeruDays 1 to 4
- 4-Day Mount Meru Climb: Perfect Kilimanjaro Preparation from Arusha · from $1,295 per person
- 4-Day Mount Meru Climb · from $900 per person
Rest daysDay 5
Rest, laundry, repack
Kilimanjaro climbDays 6 to 12
- 7-Day Lemosho Route Kilimanjaro From Moshi · from $1,900 per person
- 7-Day Lemosho Route Kilimanjaro From Arusha · from $2,495 per person
About 12 days on the ground (plus travel days)
A planning guide, not a priced package. Starting prices belong to each trip above; the combined price is confirmed in your quote.
Why this order
Who it suits
Climbers who want a build-up or two summits on one trip.
- Meru is lower and shorter, so it works as training and as a first look at how your body copes with height and long days.
- Both mountains start near Arusha and Moshi, so the transfer between them is short.
- You get two different climbs: wildlife and a ridge on Meru, five climate zones on Kilimanjaro.
Planning tips
- Leave at least one rest day between Meru and the start of Kilimanjaro, two if you can.
- Pack once: the same boots and layers work on both.
- Meru first, always. Doing Kilimanjaro first removes the point of the warm-up.
- Many climbers feel it helps: you spend nights at height and learn your pace. It is a help, not a guarantee of reaching the summit.
- Meru takes 3 to 4 days and Kilimanjaro 6 to 8, plus rest days between: about 11 to 14 days on the ground.
- You need good general fitness for long walking days and a cold summit night on each mountain. Start training well before you travel.
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Questions that come next
- Many people reach the top in their forties, fifties and sixties, and plenty are not athletes. What decides it is time and preparation, not youth: choose a long route (seven or eight days), train with hills and long loaded walks for at least two or three months, and walk slowly on the mountain. If you have a heart, lung or blood-pressure condition, see your doctor before you book.
- Ask for the company's Tanzanian business licence and TATO membership, check them on the official register, and read recent reviews on more than one site. Ask how many people are in the crew and how porters are paid and equipped. A fair operator answers these quickly and writes the answers down.
- Tips are a normal and important part of crew income. Guides, cooks and porters are tipped in a pooled way at the end of the climb, in local or US currency, with the group present. Ask your operator for their written tipping guideline before you go, so you can budget; see our tipping guide.
- At the high camps and on summit night it is usually below freezing, and wind makes it feel colder. Layers matter more than one thick coat: a base layer, fleece, insulated jacket, a waterproof shell, warm hat, gloves and a sleeping bag rated well below zero. See packing for Kilimanjaro.
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From, per person
$900
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