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With 4,566 meters
height, Meru Mountain is the second highest point in Tanzania. It is
located in the North-East of Arusha over looking at the highest peak in
Africa
Mount Kilimanjaro.
Meru Mountain is part of
Arusha National
Park,
for that case you will have the opportunity to walk through the game that
you might come across, most likely giraffes and buffaloes, to the
starting point of your hike. Its extinct crater is easily accessible
from
Arusha town, which
lies at the mountain’s southern base
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Trekking is steeper in Meru
Mountain, climbing
takes 2 days up and 2 days down depending on the weather and
physical fitness of the person. (See
details of the route)
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It has beautiful
surroundings entertained by wild animals as reedbucks, buffaloes, elephants,
duikers and colorful birds.
Wild flowers such as fireballs lilies are
common. At the crater walls, which dominated by the podo and juniper trees.
Olive pigeons flying from tree to tree while singing wildly. On the other
hand red-headed parrots relaxing and enjoying podo fruits.
"Climbing Kilimanjaro Mountain is an Adventure to trekkers and climbers,
however; the most exciting thing is to watch the sunrise emerged behind the
Snow-cap peak of Mount Kilimanjaro, and it is only possible to get that
spectacle view when Climbing Meru Mountain"
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Safari to the Heart of Wilderness
