Accommodation
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Food
When you book your trip with us, you can design the level of luxury you desire. We offer accomodation in Moshi before and after your Kilimanjaro climb and also during your entire stay in our region. You can choose between low budget, mid budget and luxury accomodation category. A very special way to experience Tanzania is a homestay with a local women or family. Wanderwomen love to host you in their homes!
On our tours you will eat a combination of local Tanzanian dishes and more western-style dishes. Breakfasts typically include porridge, breads, eggs, pancakes and fruit. Lunches and dinners range from traditional Tanzanian staples of rice, beans, chapati (pancakes) and ugali (maize porridge), to coastal Tanzanian beef stews and vegetable curries, to more
western soups, pastas, fried fish, stir fries, and salads.
Please tell us in advance about any dietary restrictions or allergies. Vegetarians and mild allergies are easily accommodated, also halal meals, vegan or gluten-free diets and severe food allergies can be can taken in account. Let us know about your particular dietary needs so we can prepare alternatives.
Room suggestions in Moshi
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We are happpy to arrange reservations for you once you book with us. Here are some examples of places we recommend.
Luxury Lodges example:
AMEG Lodge, Kilimanjaro Wonders Hotel
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Mid budget Hotels examples:
Panama Garden Resort, Altezza Lodge, Keys Hotel
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Low budget Hostels example:
We Travel Hostel, Climbers Home
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A very special and authentic experience is a homestay with one of our Wanderwomen or her family:
including breakfast and a hot meal.
Accommodation on Mount Kilimanjaro
On all Routes except Marangu Route (which supplies huts) participants will sleep in tents on safari mattresses that are carried from campsite to campsite by the porters. There will be no running water, showers, or electricity. Twice a day you will recieve a bowl of warm water from us, each time you reach a camp after the hike as well as in the mornings. Toilets are simple and sometimes quite overwhelming pit toilets in outhouses at the established campsites. That is why we offer to bring a private portable toilet tent for you that will be set up and cleaned at every camp to give you more convenience and privacy.
Warm water every morning and evening
Privat toilet tent
On Marangu Route, both hiking and biking, you will sleep in permanent huts, which offer bunk beds in shared rooms (4-6 people) and toilets. There will be running cold water, but no showers. Wanderwomen will provide you with a bowl of warm water twice a day, every morning and everytime you reach the camp at the end of the day. Since 2021 new "VIP huts" are available in two camps (Mandara and Horombo hut) which offer twin rooms und cold showers.
On our 6-day bike summit tour you will camp the first night, then sleep in clean huts of Marangu Route, which offer bunk beds in shared rooms and toilets, running cold water, but no hot showers. For the other bike tours you can choose between different types of accomodation.
Meals during your Kilimanjaro Trek
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On Kilimanjaro, we will bring our own team of chefs who will prepare fresh meals for you 3-4 times a day. Breakfast, afternoon snacks and dinner will be served in dining tents or huts at the camps, while you will have lunch either as picnic in nature on long hiking days or on short hikings days at the camp. Again, our cooking team follows your dietary preferences and restrictions. As getting closer to the summit their emphasis will be on carbohydrates as that is considered the best food to consume for energy at altitude.
Drinking water will always be boiled or treated with water purifier by our team before given to you in the morning when leaving the camp. On the mountain you should drink at least 3 liters of water per day, since drinking as much as possible is important to prevent altitude sickness. In the camps we will serve hot drinks: coffee, black and fruit tea, drinking chocolate and milk powder.​
