Our plan was to reach Mandara hut but we decided to go beyond of our trip because we arrived at Mandara hut early. On the way we had a chance to saw another vegetation zone, moorland vegetation where Erica species, tussock grasses, Everlast flowers, are common. From Mandara 2720m to Horombo 3720m it's 11km and it was challenging thus why we didn't complete this trip as we planned at least we tried our best, only 4km left to Horombo hut. We decided to go back to Marangu gate.