Mount Kilimanjaro & Rwanda Trip July 2025

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Morning Run, United States ‐ Jun 10, 2026

3.2 mi

↗️ 20 m
Afternoon Run ‐ Jun 8

3.5 mi

↗️ 13 m
Afternoon Run ‐ Jun 2

3.5 mi
Afternoon Run ‐ May 28

3.4 mi

↗️ 17 m
Morning Run ‐ May 25

6.2 mi

↗️ 27 m
Morning Run ‐ May 23

7.3 mi

↗️ 29 m
Afternoon Run ‐ May 15

3.4 mi
Afternoon Run ‐ May 12

3.4 mi
Lunch Run ‐ May 10

10.1 mi

↗️ 49 m
Morning Run ‐ May 8

3.4 mi

↗️ 46 m
Afternoon Run ‐ May 5

3.2 mi

↗️ 67 m
Lunch Run ‐ May 3

8.3 mi

↗️ 38 m
Afternoon Run ‐ Apr 29

4 mi

↗️ 82 m
Afternoon Run ‐ Apr 22

3.5 mi

↗️ 11 m
Afternoon Run ‐ Apr 17

5 mi

↗️ 83 m
Afternoon Run ‐ Apr 15

4 mi

↗️ 85 m
Morning Run ‐ Apr 4

3.4 mi

↗️ 12 m
Morning Run ‐ Mar 29

5 mi

↗️ 21 m
Morning Run ‐ Mar 25

4.2 mi

↗️ 91 m
Afternoon Run ‐ Mar 23

1.4 mi

↗️ 17 m
Morning Hike ‐ Mar 21

5.7 mi

↗️ 534 m
Morning Hike ‐ Mar 14

3.9 mi

↗️ 30 m
Afternoon Run ‐ Feb 27

4 mi
Morning Run ‐ Feb 19

6.3 mi

↗️ 81 m
Lunch Run ‐ Feb 17

3.2 mi
Afternoon Run ‐ Feb 16

3.2 mi

↗️ 39 m
Morning Hike ‐ Jan 17

5.9 mi

↗️ 690 m
Morning Run ‐ Dec 26, 2025

3.1 mi
Morning Run ‐ Dec 25, 2025

3.2 mi
Morning Run ‐ Dec 1, 2025

2.3 mi

↗️ 25 m
Morning Run ‐ Nov 27, 2025

3.5 mi

↗️ 21 m
Morning Hike ‐ Nov 15, 2025

15.7 mi

↗️ 670 m
Morning Run ‐ Nov 9, 2025

13.4 mi

↗️ 171 m
Afternoon Run ‐ Nov 2, 2025

1.1 mi
Lunch Run

8 mi

↗️ 34 m
Morning Walk

3 mi

↗️ 19 m
Morning Hike ‐ Oct 26, 2025

6.1 mi

↗️ 650 m
Morning Hike ‐ Oct 18, 2025

3.9 mi

↗️ 356 m
Afternoon Run ‐ Oct 9, 2025

3.6 mi
Afternoon Run ‐ Oct 7, 2025

4.3 mi

↗️ 42 m
Morning Walk ‐ Oct 5, 2025

1.6 mi

↗️ 12 m
Evening Run ‐ Sep 30, 2025

3.5 mi
Evening Run ‐ Sep 23, 2025

3 mi
Lunch Run ‐ Sep 21, 2025

3.5 mi

↗️ 12 m
Afternoon Run ‐ Sep 18, 2025

1.3 mi
Morning Hike ‐ Sep 13, 2025

15.8 mi

↗️ 1255 m
Morning Walk ‐ Aug 30, 2025

3 mi

↗️ 20 m
Morning Run ‐ Aug 29, 2025

3.4 mi

↗️ 12 m
Morning Run ‐ Aug 26, 2025

3.5 mi

↗️ 15 m
Afternoon Run ‐ Aug 25, 2025

5.1 mi

↗️ 25 m
Morning Run ‐ Aug 19, 2025

3.2 mi

↗️ 14 m
Morning Run ‐ Aug 15, 2025

3.4 mi
Morning Run ‐ Aug 13, 2025

6.6 mi

↗️ 23 m
Lunch Run ‐ Aug 7, 2025

3.4 mi
Morning Hike ‐ Aug 6, 2025

6.6 mi

↗️ 86 m
Afternoon Hike ‐ Aug 5, 2025

1.9 mi

↗️ 121 m
Morning Hike

7.8 mi

↗️ 912 m
Morning Hike ‐ Aug 4, 2025

9.9 mi

↗️ 1174 m
Afternoon Run ‐ Aug 3, 2025

5.3 mi

↗️ 22 m
Afternoon Walk ‐ Aug 1, 2025

1.2 mi
Morning Run ‐ Jul 30, 2025

3.5 mi

↗️ 11 m
Morning Hike, Tanzania ‐ Jul 13, 2025

2.5 mi

↗️ 175 m
Afternoon Hike ‐ Jul 14, 2025

3.5 mi

↗️ 507 m
Boston, United States ‐ Jul 29, 2025
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands

+5

Final Day

Final Day

My time in Tanzania and Rwanda has come to an end. On my last day in Rwanda I spent it finding golden monkeys in the forest which was a lot easy to find than gorillas. It took us 5 minutes to spot the...
Afternoon Walk, Rwanda ‐ Jul 28, 2025

3.4 mi

↗️ 123 m
Volcanoes National Park ‐ Jul 27, 2025

+8

Gorilla Trekking

Mountain Gorilla Trekking - Rwanda

You haven’t truly experienced the African jungles if you haven’t gotten stung and pricked by random jungle plants, latched on by and bitten by evil ants (more than once), had an appearance of a machet...
Afternoon Walk ‐ Jul 26, 2025

1.4 mi

↗️ 15 m

Kigali, Rwanda - Day 4

Kigali, Rwanda - Day 4

day is a national holiday in Rwanda. Every last Saturday of the month, all businesses are shut down from 8am-11am and all citizens from the age of 16+ are required to participate in community service...
Lunch Walk

1.6 mi

↗️ 121 m
Morning Walk

1.1 mi
Kigali ‐ Jul 25, 2025

Kigali, Rwanda - Day 3
Mayange

+3

Kigali, Rwanda - Day 2

Kigali, Rwanda - Day 3

This morning I woke up and walked to a coffee shop. Rwanda is very known for their coffee. I ordered a coconut latte and probably was the best latte I have had! Coffee is cheap here, I got a latte wit...

Kigali, Rwanda - Day 2

Day 2 here in Kigali and I went on a tour to talk to perpetrators and survivors of the Genocide against the Tutsi’s that occurred in Rwanda. Our first stop was to the Genocide Memorial which was a chu...
Nyamirambo ‐ Jul 22, 2025
Kigali

+12

Kigali, Rwanda - Day 1

Kigali, Rwanda - Day 1

My first observation when arriving in Rwanda was as wow it is way more developed than Tanzania. Rwanda is right next door to Tanzania and it is a drastic difference. I’m staying at my coworker’s siste...
Nairobi, Kenya

Spent 10 hours at the Nairobi Airport 🤪
Afternoon Walk, Rwanda ‐ Jul 23, 2025

4 mi

↗️ 138 m
Morning Hike, Tanzania ‐ Jul 15, 2025

6.3 mi

↗️ 914 m
Kilimanjaro National Park ‐ Jul 22, 2025

+5

The final Trek

The Final Trek

We were woken up at 6am with coffee and tea brought to our tent, breakfast was ready at 6:30am. This company, Peak Planet treated us like royalty the whole trip. We all ate as a team together talking...
Millenium Camp

The decent

Whoever said Kilimanjaro is an “easy” high altitude mountain was absolutely lying. After our 7 hour accent to the summit we had to hike down. It only took us 3 hours to get down because we did not hav...
Uhuru Peak

+6

Summit Night/day

Summit Night/Day

Summit night finally came! We all probably got a total of 3 hours of sleep. The guides woke us up at 10:15pm to do a briefing and eat a snack before we started our trek to the summit. For summit night...
Morning Hike ‐ Jul 18, 2025

3.5 mi

↗️ 509 m
Barafu Camp ‐ Jul 21, 2025

+5

Day 6 - Barafu Camp

Final Canp before summit

Well we made it to our final camp before summit night!! Barafu camp which means ice in Swahili is at 15,000 feet. We have been acclimating our way at each camp. Some how tomorrow we are going to climb...
Morning Hike ‐ Jul 17, 2025

7.1 mi

↗️ 826 m
Morning Hike ‐ Jul 16, 2025

5 mi

↗️ 436 m
Karanga Camp ‐ Jul 18, 2025

+9

Day 5 - Karanga Camp

Karanga Camp Day 5

Karanga Camp 13,100 feet Woke up to a cold morning 🥶 but opening up the tent and look at the view of Kilimanjaro does not get old. After breakfast and vitals, we sang and danced to motivate us to ge...

Day 5 -

Karanga Camp 13,100 feet Woke up to a cold morning 🥶 but opening up the tent and look at the view of Kilimanjaro does not get old. After breakfast and vitals, we sang and danced to motivate us to ge...

Day 5 - Kara ga Camp

Karanga Camp 13,100 feet Woke up to a cold morning 🥶 but opening up the tent and look at the view of Kilimanjaro does not get old. After breakfast and vitals, we sang and danced to motivate us to ge...
Barranco Camp ‐ Jul 17, 2025

+2

Day 4 - Hike #2

After lunch, we split back up into our Team Araka and Team Poley Poley group to move at different paces that people were comfortable with. We trekked our way to Barranco camp which is right before wha...
Lava Tower ‐ Jul 18, 2025

+7

Day 4 - Hike #1 of 2

Today we started another day waking up to the sunrise with a heavy breakfast that consisted of crepes with Nutella, eggs, potato, and porridge. We started our trek at 8am and hiked from 12,600 feet to...
Shira Cave Camp ‐ Jul 16, 2025

+2

Day 3 - Shira Hut Camp

Day 3 was an easier climb. We woke up at sunrise and Kili was clear as day. Another beautiful sight of the mountain. Me and my 2 Dutch friends are part of the Araka Crew also known as the quick crew a...
Shira

+3

Shira 1 camp

Camp 2 - Shira 1

Made it to Shira 1 camp! According to our guide this was the toughest day until summit night 😬 we finally got a view of Kilimanjaro right before dinner. Although we have lucked out with sunny weather...
Mti Mkubwa ‐ Jul 15, 2025

+3

Camp 1

Made it to camp 1. Had a hot meal that consisted of fish, potatoes and vegetables! Slept at 8,700 feet. Slept in the rainforest with monkeys surrounding us. So cool!! The porters literally bring up ev...
Lemosho Gate ‐ Jul 14, 2025

Trek Day 1 to the summit of Kilimanjaro

Driving to the Lemosho gate to get started. We are ready for our 8 day trek to Kilimanjaro!

First day to Kilimanjaro

Driving to the Lemosho gate to get started. We are ready for our 8 day trek to Kilimanjaro!
Materuni Village ‐ Jul 13, 2025

3 mi

One of the largest waterfalls in Moshi, Tanzania

+3

Materuni Village & Coffee

Got driven up to the Materuni Village. The roads here are insane. Our driver jokes, “ Roads here give you free back massage.” It was bumpy and steep. Once we got there, we hiked 5km to the falls and b...
Moshi ‐ Jul 12, 2025

Made it to the Stella Maris Lodge in Moshi

First night in Moshi

First night in Moshi

Made it to Moshi! Where I’ll be staying before climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. Luggage got lost in Amsterdam, but hoping it will arrive tomorrow 🤞 When I arrived, I had two personal drivers who were beyo...
Kilimanjaro International Airport
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands

Layover for 55 Minutes
Logan International Airport, United States ‐ Jul 11, 2025

Awaiting my Flight that departs at 8:15pm to Amsterdam. From Amsterdam I fly direct to Kilimanjaro Airport.

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