Day 01: Arrival
We will pick you up and transfer you to Venus Hotel for dinner and overnight
Day 3:
Arusha – Serengeti national park (Central): 335kms/8hrs drive
After breakfast, you will drive to Central Serengeti for game drive with picnic lunch. In this area of the park you will have opportunity to see big prides of lions, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, giraffes, elephants, different antelopes and other wildlife. In the late afternoon, you will drive to your camp for dinner and overnight.
Dinner and overnight at Mbugani Camp on full board basis. http://mbuganicamps.com/
Day 3:
Serengeti national park (Central)
After breakfast, you will drive to Central Serengeti for game drive with picnic lunch. In this area of the park you will have opportunity to see big prides of lions, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, giraffes, elephants, different antelopes and other wildlife. In the late afternoon, you will drive to your camp for dinner and overnight.
Dinner and overnight at Mbugani Camp on full board basis. http://mbuganicamps.com/
Day 4:
Serengeti – Ngorongoro Crater tour: 80kms/2hrs drive
After early breakfast, you will depart for Ngorongoro crater with picnic lunch for a game drive on the crater floor. This will be the best place for you to see the endangered black rhino (less than 1,000 black rhinos remain in the wild). You will also see pink flamingos in lake Magadi, lots of hyenas, gazelles, warthogs, jackals, and if you are lucky, lions and cheetahs.
Dinner & Overnight at Eileen Trees Inn on full board basishttp://www.eileenstrees.com/
Day 5:
Karatu – Tarangire – Arusha: 165kms/2.5hrs drive
Today you will enjoy a game drive in Tarangire national park before you will be transferred to Venus Hotel for dinner and overnight
Day 6:
Machame Gate/Machame Camp
Early morning after breakfast, start with a drive to Machame gate. Begin trekking though the rain forest on a winding trail for 5-7 hours, then continue past fist hut to the Machame hut Campsite at 3100m for dinner and overnight.
Day 7:
Machame Camp/Shira Camp
After breakfast, leave the glades of the rain forest and continue on an ascending path, crossing a little valley and walking along a steep rocky ridge covered with heather until the end of the ridge. The route then turns west onto a river gorge at 3658m (5-7hours) for dinner and overnight at the Shira hut campsite at3800m.
Day 8:
Shira Camp/Barranco Camp
From the Shira plateau, continue trekking east towards the lava tower called (the shark’s tooth””). Shortly after the tower, you come to a junction leading to the arrow glacier. Continue to Barranco hut campsite at 3950m for dinner and overnight (5-7hours walking).
Day 9:
Barranco Camp/Karanga Valley Camp
After breakfast start with a tailspin into the Gorge, before you climb its eastern wall and you will delight in views of Kilimanjaro’s ice fields, an equatorial anomaly. Go on hiking until you reach your camp in Kilimanjaro Karanga Valley at 13,900 feet, (4-5 hours of walking).
Day 10:
Karanga Valley Camp/Barafu Camp
After breakfast hike through the Karanga Valley, the trail turns steadily uphill, following the lava ridge to the Barafu camp. The temperature will grow colder and the landscape more sparse as we approach Barafu Camp. Barafu Camp is set on a bantam, exposed flat area on a ridge, acting as a base camp from which you will make your summit attempt at midnight. Barafu camp is at 15,200 feet, ( 6-7 hours of walking).
Day 11:
Barafu Camp/Uhuru Peak (Roof of Africa !)
Just after midnight trek to Stella point (5745m) on the way to the summit, the UHURU peak, and this part of the climb takes about 8hours. Here you will have reached the highest point in Africa (5895m)! From the summit, descend to Mweka hut campsite at 3100m for dinner and overnight. (5-hours walking)
Day 12:
Mweka Camp/Mweka Gate
This day is spent descending to the Mweka park gate (3-4hours).When you get to the gate you will be awarded your climbing certificate and there after your driver will be there ready to transfer you to Venus Hotel for late lunch, dinner and overnight
Day 13:
Zanzibar
After breakfast depart to Arusha airport for your flight to Zanzibar. In Zanzibar you will be picked up and transferred to Warere Beach Hotel in an Ocean View room for dinner and overnight.
Dinner & Overnight at Warere Beach Hotel on half board basis
Day 14:
Leisure at the beach
Dinner & Overnight at Warere Beach Hotel on half board basis
Day 15:
Dinner & Overnight at Warere Beach Hotel on half board basis
Day 16:
Departure
This is your last day in Zanzibar. Later on be transferred to the airport to take your flight home as per your flight details.
Package includes:
- All meals and accommodations during the entire safari
- A very high quality safari land cruiser with pop up roof
- A highly experienced safari guide
- Unlimited mineral water during the entire safari
- All park fees for all the national parks
- All government taxes
- All transfers in the mainland
- AMREF Flying doctors emergence rescue
- Zanzibar ground transfers
- Zanzibar accommodation
- Ground transfers in Arusha
Safari cost excludes:
- Local & international flights,
- Trekking equipment
- Tips,
- Drinks at the camps
- Balloon safari in Serengeti – $510 per person
- Excursions in Zanzibar and
- Any other things not mentioned above.
