DAY 1
Depart Moshi/Arusha and drive to Arusha National Park. After meeting the armed park ranger to accompany us, and registering ourselves at Momella Gate, the climb then starts out in the grasslands of the lower slopes where we will encounter: giraffes, buffalos and warthogs and then lush forest inhabited by bushbucks, red duikers, blue / Skye's monkeys, black & white colobus monkeys and some variety of birds to Miriakamba Huts, 2515m / 8,250ft. (3-4 hours walk).