For mountain climbing, Tanzania has two main attractions; Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Meru. Mt Kilimanjaro of course is the most famous. Just 3° south of the equator, Kilimanjaro’s white flat top, shimmers in the blue sky. Grand and majestic, it looks “as wide as all the world, great, high, and amazing white in the sun” as Hemingway had described it. It has the distinction of being highest freestanding mountain in the world (compare with nearby Moshi town with an elevation of 900m/2,953ft), the highest summit in Africa (5895m/19,340ft) and the highest mountain in the world that can be climbed without technical equipment and techniques.