Kilimanjaro Rongai Route

With its gentle gradient and sense of unspoiled wilderness, the Rongai Route approaches Kilimanjaro from the north and is less crowded than the most popular trails.The Rongai route is one of the least frequented of the official Kilimanjaro routes. The upside of this is that there will be few other climbers about and for most of the trek you are walking through the virgin wilderness and awe-inspiring scenery. The downside is that one of the reasons it is quiet is because the topography of this route doesn’t make it easy to acclimatize as you can’t easily follow the “walk high, sleep low” principle

Lying in the rain shadow of Kilimanjaro, the Rongai route is one of the best routes to make the attempt on Kilimanjaro during the rainy season, as it sees substantially less rain than the southern routes.