The Machame Route

The Machame Route (6-7 days) or ‘Whiskey Route’ is the next most popular trail, and the one many guides consider the most enjoyable. Though widely regarded as more difficult than the Marangu trail, the success rate on this trail is higher, possibly because it is a day longer at six days and five nights (assuming you take the Barafu Route to the summit) which gives trekkers more time to acclimatize. An extra acclimatization day can also be taken in the Karanga Valley.

You can also take the Arrow Glacier Route (Western Breach). It’s much harder, steeper and it shortens the trek by a day, therefore gives trekkers less time to acclimatize, but you have more time than other paths to explore the summit. Also on reaching the crater, you are close to the path that leads to the inner Reusch Crater, thereby allowing you to explore the summit in greater detail.