This campsite is an overnight resting point along this long route on Mount Kilimanjaro solely used by climbers. Kikelelwa Campsite is a public campsite, open to all climbers.

Kikelelwa campsite is located in the moorland zone of Mount Kilimanjaro vegetation on the northeastern of the mountain. Since the camp is located at a relatively higher altitude, plants here are shorter than in the zones below and the population here diminishes at there is not enough vegetation to sustain them.

Since Kikelelwa Campsite has shorter vegetation, it lacks windbreakers in the form of trees or blocking hills. It only has small fragments of rocks sprinkled here and there. The nights here are more silent with high winds blowing from time to time.