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KiliCircle - 289 km Standard tour or Massai tour for bike experts
MTB-Tour
It is really a mountain bike tour; please no trekking or street bike. Because of the moderate daily distances the tour is feasible for normal fit bikers. All routes we go also with our Land Cruiser, except one short single trail down to Lake Chala. You don’t have to have no head for.
The standard mountain bike (289km) tour starts in Marangu end ends in Moshi - 6 days with one day off. There are modifications possible from the standard route- we have shortened it for those who are very advanced (4 days, same distance) and extended it for the ones who like to relish in nature (9 days, 540km). The extension really gives the route a most wonderful character- it goes along to the Mt. Meru by Massailand and ends in the Momella Lodge or the Hatari Lodge in combination with one or two days without biking, which can be used to go on a safari or take a trip at the Mt. Meru.
New: we offer a Massai tour for experts (see below).
You can bring your own mountain bike or rent one from us. We have 20 top quality MTBs from Scott of different frame sizes available.
You can bring your own mountain bike or rent one from us. We have 20 top quality MTBs from Scott of different frame sizes available.
The standard tour is accompanied all the time (Massai tour only first and secound day) by an escort vehicle with the tents, the food and personal belongings. Chagga Tours provides the equipment for the camps, except sleeping bags and mattresses the participants are asked to bring. Fundamental fixing equipment is in our possession and our bike guides are experts. Most of the tour the mobile phone has reception; just one day is without communication connection. In an emergency the escort vehicle can reach Moshi or Arusha in about 5 hours, where professional help is stationed.
Chagga tours requests the affirmation of a health insurance of every participant. We contract insurances for all participants which cover to be flown out by helicopter in case of emergency.
We have developed an alternative budget tour for experts and small groups of 1-3 bikers. A car will accompany the group only on day 1 and 2 to set up the camps. From day 3 to 6 every biker gets two VAUDE bags to carry his own stuff on the bike. Accommodation is in huts during all other nights, so no need for sleeping back and sleeping mattress anymore (goes back with the car). Day 3 is the same like during the standard tour but on day 4 the tour goes to the Massai village Olpopongi near the Ndarakwai farm (www.olpopongi-maasai.com)
The well know author Tom Kunkler (Guide book “Kilimanjaro”) has finished a unique project together with native Massai living in these area. They established together a complete Massai village plus museum and luxury facilities, like restaurant, showers, huts with mosquito net etc. Missing in the village and houses are only the big and small animals of the Massai. Because of this fact you can spend a night there and get a good sleep! Day 5, the day off is full of Massai feelings, walking safari, learning about wilderness technologies and BBQ from goat meat or vegetables. On day 6 biking back to Moshi (see standard tour).
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The single stages of the standard tour 1 Lake Chala 39km, 200m elevation gain increase, altitude finish 940m After the arrival day and the preparation day in Marangu we start on day three to the first stage. The ride goes off road, mostly through farmland and downwards. Lake Chala is breathtakingly beautiful; a clear blue diamond in the brown dusty savanna. At Lake Chala we are met by our cooking-crew and…..pavians. You will be lodged in our tents; two people in three people mountain tents Mark III from VAUDE and the dining tent Base Camp is used also by expeditions on the Everest. There are showers and toilets on the cam . |
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2 Usseri 66km, 1152m elevation gain increase, altitude finish 1400m We take the way over the mountains to the North, parallel to the border to Kenya. The more up we go, the landscape becomes greener and greener and we encounter many farms of the Chagga people. Up and down hill sections change and stony and dusty ways need attention. The destination of the day is the camping site in Usseri, an old Chagga village on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. We camp on the private plot of our bike guide Nico Tarimo, a shower and toilet tent is available. |
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3 Rongai 25km, 850m elevation gain increase, altitude finish 2000m From this day on, we come in close contact with the Kilimanjaro and his small brother, Mawenzi. We take a steep ascension to the main pass, which leads around the Kilimanjaro and where we will stay the next two days. Here mostly pedestrians, bikers and sometimes cars pass. The trail is on the beginning of the road and leads into a tarmac road 15km before Rongai. The route goes through small villages, where you are met with open hospitality. |
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4 Ndarakwai At the day’s destination, the ranch of Margot & Peter Jones, you can observe elephants, since the surrounding land offers best conditions for them. Besides Africa’s biggest animal there can be found many more interesting creatures. At the evening while sitting at the fireplace you are able to listen to the nightly voice of the savanna. You will sleep in a comfortable tent, where two firm beds, a shower and a toilet are set up (http://www.ndarakwai.com/). |
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