Drive to Londorossi Gate where you complete registration formalities. Following registration you continue a further 12km by vehicle to the route’s start point. This final drive can take anywhere between 45 minutes and 1 hour 30, depending on road conditions. From the Lemosho starting point (2389m) to Big Tree Camp (2785m) the distance is just about 5km, and just under 400m of elevation gain. The whole of the first day’s trek is spent in some of the most pristine and beautiful to be found anywhere on the mountain. Our first day ends at Mti Mkubwa, the Big Tree Camp (2785m), where, as with every night on the trek, you will arrive to find your tent already erected and a snack awaiting. A full dinner follows before you settle down to sleep to the sounds of the forest, with monkeys calling and the noisy turaco bird in this most blissful of locations, underneath the spreading branches of a beautiful old podocarpus tree.

Overnight at Mti Mkubwa Camp during your first night on the mountain.