Possibly the most scenic route to the summit machame boasts several paths to its highest point and back en route to uhuru emerge onto high alpine deserts with amazing views of ice fields and the peak of mt kilimanjaro known as the whiskey route because of the tougher challenge this path leads you through magnificent forests before traversing a ridge leading through moorland to the shira plateau it offers great scenery beneath the glaciated precipices of the southern ice fields before summ