The Dream Team Kilimanjaro-DTEKI

To climb Mount Kilimanjaro on the Machame route  means to share the mountain with many other trekkers. Ever since the budget operators discovered Machame the traffic on the route has been growing. It soon overtook the Marangu route as the most heavily trafficked climb route on Mount Kilimanjaro. The reason is not only that prices have been dropping.  The Machame route is considered the most scenic route up Kilimanjaro. However, that's not really true. The Machame route is a very scenic route, but not the only one. Both the Shira route and the Lemosho route share the same path as the Machame route after the first day or two. But they are less trafficked and ideally longer, so they are more expensive. It would be more correct to say Machame is the most scenic Kilimanjaro route that you can climb with a budget operator. (If it's a good idea to  climb Mt. Kilimanjaro with a budget operator , that's of course a different question.) Climbing Kilimanjaro on