Mount Meru is an active volcano located 70 kilometres (44 miles) west of Mount Kilimanjaro. It reaches 4,566 metres (14,980 feet) in height but has lost much of its bulk due to an eastward volcanic blast about 8,000 years ago, similar to the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington. Mount Meru most recently had a minor eruption about a century ago. The several small cones and craters seen in the vicinity probably reflect numerous episodes of volcanic activity.

       

The mountain is little-known, but second-highest peak in Tanzania. It is, of course, overshadowed in the consciousness of tourists by its neighbour Kilimanjaro, 80 kilometres to the east and the highest mountain in Africa.

However, although it's much less popular than Kilimanjaro, Meru has some distinct advantages over the higher mountain. For a start, Meru is much cheaper to climb.

The climb up Meru is more scenic and spectacular, and you are much less likely to suffer altitude sickness on 4,667-metre-high Mt. Meru than on 5,895 m Kilimanjaro. In fact, Meru makes an ideal high-altitude acclimatization warm-up climb before tackling Kili.
 
                 

Meru is a spectacular volcano. Once upon a very long time ago, it rose higher than Kilimanjaro; this is also said about Mt. Kenya and the Ngorongoro Crater, so you may want to take this assertion with a grain of salt. However tall it once was, it certainly erupted sideways, rather like Mt. St. Helens, a few million years ago, leaving the northern, southern and western slopes intact, but obliterating the eastern slope of the volcanic cone.
                

From above, mt Meru is now shaped like a horseshoe opening east, with a new tiny cinder cone forming in the bottom of the devastated crater, and huge cliffs extending up the crater walls almost to the summit. The crater floor and the lower slopes are densely forested, but the upper slopes are barren expanses of black volcanic ash and occasional massive boulders of lava. 
   
Mount Meru is just only 23 km by road outside  Arusha, the staging post for safaris to the Serengeti, 

4 DAYS AND 3 NIGHT MOUNT MERU CLIMB ITINARY

Day 1: Arrival and transfer at hotel.

Day 2: Departure from Moshi after breakfast in the early morning and drive to Momella gate. Start the climb dinner and overnight to the first hut called Miriakamaba. 4 HOURS

Day 3. After breakfast. Proceed to the second hut called Saddle the steep part compared to the first part 3 hours. In the afternoon, we will attempt climbing little Meru peak and back. Dinner and overnight at Saddle hut.

Day 4: Wake up at middle-night and have a cup of tea before starting attempt big Meru peak. Proceed to summit crossing rocky path and back to Saddle hut for full breakfast. The day will be spent resting . Lunch, dinner and overnight at Saddle hut.

Day 5; Leave Saddle hut and descend down to Momella gate where the driver will be waiting for you and transferred to Arusha/Moshi. 

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