Three majestic peaks Shira in the west, Mawenzi in the East and the snow capped Kibo in the centre provide ample challenge for mountain climbers and adventurers.

With a wide variance in climates, from tropical; where lush rainforests exist that are home to elusive elephant, leopard, buffalo, bushbuck, the endangered Abbott’s duiker, and numerous other small antelopes, primates and rodents; to heather and open moorland where giant lobelia and huge, cactus-like groundsel grow; moorland to an almost lunar landscape of an alpine desert stretching closer to the peaks of the mountain where herds of eland thrive. A fine example of co-existing contrasts, the Kilimanjaro National Park has everything for everybody.