{"id":30239,"date":"2026-09-16T13:04:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=30239"},"modified":"2026-09-16T13:04:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:04:40","slug":"kilimanjaro-climbers-reach-machame-camp-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2026\/09\/16\/img-news\/kilimanjaro-climbers-reach-machame-camp-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilimanjaro climbers reach Machame Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 16, 2026<\/p>\n

Max Bond reports that the crew had a nice hike today, and everyone is ensconced at Machame Camp.\u00a0 After driving to the park entrance station at Machame Gate, they got checked in with the rangers, connected with our local Chagga team, and then started the climb.\u00a0 The first day is almost entirely in the forest, with some peekaboo views and monkeys along the way.\u00a0 Then, at about 9,500 feet, the trees start to thin out and are replaced by the first of the high-altitude tropical species, like the giant heather plants.\u00a0 Soon the camp comes into view, and from there the summit is visible!\u00a0 The team had the tents all set up for them, and they soon enjoyed a fresh home cooked meal from our great cooks.\u00a0 All\u2019s well on Kilimanjaro!<\/span><\/p>\n

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The sign at Machame trailhead (Max Bond)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Machame Camp (Max Bond)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Heading up into the forest from Machame Gate (Eric Simonson)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Monkey in a tree (Max Bond)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September 16, 2026 Max Bond reports that the crew had a nice hike today, and everyone is ensconced at Machame Camp.\u00a0 After driving to the park entrance station at Machame Gate, they got checked in with the rangers, connected with our local Chagga team, and then started the climb.\u00a0 The first day is almost entirely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-img-news","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30244,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30239\/revisions\/30244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}