7-Day Kilimanjaro Trek: Machame Route to Uhuru Peak (Southern Circuit)

Night on Kilimanjaro feels like a soft bruise — cold, close and humming with the breath of the mountain. You start in the humid green of Machame village, where banana leaves drip and porters move like a practiced current, and seven days later you stand above the clouds watching sunlight spill across Mawenzi as if someone has finally opened a curtain. This is the Machame approach and the Southern Circuit combined: a route that walks you through montane rainforest, heather moor, alpine desert and the thin, arctic air near Uhuru Peak.