SADDLE HUT (1.052↑; 250↓; 4-5hrs; 3.566m; +/+/+)

It’s time to meet your group for the next week. We will pick you up at your hotel around 8am. The guide will present the whole team with a heartwarming welcome and introduction of porters, the cook and the rest of the team. You will get a nice first impression through typical Tanzanian songs which follow you the whole way up to “Big Meru”. It takes us 2hrs by car (passing a supermarket in the meanwhile) to get to the Momella Gate (1.500m). Your guide will sign you up and arrange all payments for the National Park. Before starting our trek you will get a lunch box and softdrinks to strengthen yourself for a nice trip. Around 11am we’re starting our trekking tour. You and your team, which includes always a park ranger, will pass the National Park of Arusha which is an amazing feeling crossing these wide fields by foot and seeing giraffes, buffalos, pumbas and all other safari animals. After 1hrs we are entering the big rainforest and passing some roads as well as crossing the jungle off the beaten track – Always behind the ranger who clears the way for you. It’s quite easy to walk and moderately steep. We recommend wearing long trousers to protect yourself from prickly plants or animals, as well as protecting your head with a cap. So excited about what awaits you around the next corner or which animal you will meet, you will reach your first camp after 6hrs of walking around 5pm. You will sign up yourself within the Camp book directly after arrival and will move into the Huts. You can expect 4-dorm-bed-rooms and will get hot water for washing at 5.30pm. Dinner will be ready at 6pm and the day finds a happy end with a nice briefing of your guide for the next day.