Baggage, Porters, and Baggage
All through this journey you’ll pack and repack only a few cases, residing out of your backpack via the day and accessing the rest of your gear in your portered boundary bag at night time time.
You’ll find quite a few numerous sorts of bags in your gear guidelines:
- Small Pack – 32-40 liters, ample to carry delicate snacks, layers, water, and one other gear via the day.
- Small Duffel – carry-on baggage for travels to Tanzania. This merchandise simply is not needed on Kilimanjaro, so be completely happy to utilize an alternate carry-on sized merchandise you already private instead. Remember that this duffel moreover makes good baggage for the safari!
- Journey Baggage – whether or not or not inside the kind of a giant duffel or suitcase, you’ll confirm some kind of bags when you fly to Arusha. We select duffel baggage, although hard-sided suitcases are OK.
- Boundary Bag – supplied by Alpine Ascents all through your gear confirm in Arusha, this 115-liter, waterproof pack will embody your entire gear and is portered from camp to camp so that you just don’t want to carry it.
There’s some flexibility to the best way it’s possible you’ll choose to pack for this journey. Be taught the beneath to attain an understanding of the logistical flow into.
STAGE 1 – TRAVEL TO TANZANIA
Pack each little factor (except for only a few objects talked about beneath) into your journey baggage and confirm it in collectively along with your airline. We select to flat pack our small pack inside this baggage.
Pack your small duffel (or comparable) as your carry-on, being sure to include any common comfort objects for worldwide air journey. Staying relaxed inside the days earlier to your expedition will contribute to your acclimatization! Skilled tip: we typically fly with our mountaineering boots, insulated pants, and parkas in our carry-on baggage. Inside the event of misplaced baggage this stuff are troublesome to change in Arusha.
STAGE 2 – TRIP PREP IN ARUSHA
Positioned beneath Mount Meru, Arusha is mid-sized metropolis in shut proximity to Kilimanjaro, Ngorogoro Crater, and Serengeti Nationwide Park. Proper right here, we take the time to do a radical gear confirm. On the gear confirm, you might be issued an Alpine Ascents boundary bag to utilize via the trek.
After our gear confirm, we’ll pack as outlined beneath:
- Small duffel & journey baggage – pack up one thing that you must go away behind, and plan to retailer it at your lodge via the climb.
- Small pack – your trekking clothes and footwear go on this bag, alongside collectively along with your water bottles, trekking poles, hydration mixes in your water bottles, some further snacks, digicam, and a few layers ample for an all-day trek. Your data will assess the local weather forecast and gives specific educating.
- Boundary bag – each little factor else is packed into this duffel bag, which might be ported for you from camp to camp on the journey. Remember that you will not have entry to it all through day-after-day because it’s portered for you.
STAGE 3 – CLIMBING KILIMANJARO
Day-to-day, steadily ascending to allow our our our bodies time to acclimatize, we’ll climb Kilimanjaro with the all-too obligatory assist of our porter group. Every single day, we’ll pack our boundary baggage and hand them off for the day. By the day, each little factor we would like need to be packed into our small packsalong with layers, water bottles, cameras, and plenty of others.
Upon arriving to each camp, we’re going to as soon as extra have entry to the gear in our boundary baggage. After descending from the best of the mountain, we’re going to return to Arusha and de-issue boundary baggage.
OPTIONAL – SAFARI/SERENGETI BALLOON RIDE
After the climb, some will go on to participate in a safari and/or balloon expertise over the Serengeti. All through these elements of the journey, you might be using solely your personal baggage, having already returned the boundary bag. The small duffel is useful for this state of your journey, as there is a 15kg weight prohibit for the flight once more from the Serengeti.