4-Day Mount Meru Private Trek: Acclimatize for Kilimanjaro on a Guided Trek

Early on the first morning the road from Arusha narrows and the town’s heat gives way to the cool, coffee-scented foothills. You step out of the vehicle at Momella Gate beneath a wall of montane forest—giant fig roots, ferns brushing your shins—and feel the trail change from a walk into an ascent that asks for attention. Over four days the mountain will shift its personality: a jungle that seems intent on keeping you slow and steady, a high moor of heather and grasses that opens views to Kilimanjaro’s white flank, and finally the raw, wind-gnawed rim of Meru’s crater at 4,568 meters.