Wildlife Safari and Mount Kilimanjaro Climb Key Information: Tour Duration: 15 days/14night
Group Size: 2 - 10 people Destination(s): Arusha/Manyara/Serengeti/Ngorongoro
& Zanzibar Specialty Categories: Wildlife Viewing Season: January - December Airfare Included: No Tour Customizable: Yes
This is a comprehensive safari package that combines
safari to the famous game parks and climbing the highest
mountain in Africa – the majestic snow-capped
Mount Kilimanjaro.
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Mount Kilimanjaro
- The Peak of Africa:
Day 1: Arrival and overnight Impala Hotel B/B
Day 2: Arusha to Tarangire National Park After breakfast drive to Tarangire National Park
which is one of the most scenic national parks in
Tanzania with its huge baobab trees some of which
are over 500,000 years old. The park in recent times
has witnessed tree climbing lions and is well known
for its large migratory herds of elephants. The park
is 650,000 acres making it the third largest park
in Tanzania. Lunch break inside the park and later
game viewing en-route to Mto wa Mbu. Dinner and Overnight
at Migungani Lodge.
Day 3: Tarangire to Lake Manyara National Park With your packed lunch boxes drive to Lake Manyara
National Park. This park is on the western edge of
the Great Rift Valley. Although the park is small,
it offers a surprisingly diverse habitat and wildlife.
The entrance to the park is a rainforest fed by underground
springs and home to baboons, Monitors, Pythons and
a large variety of birds. The heart of the park is
the large soda lake where Flamingoes, WaterFowl and
Hippos are seen. The most stunning aspect of this
particular park is "LION ON THE TREES".
This is an unpredictable view, only lucky ones witness
the show. Dinner and Overnight at Lake Manyara Hotel
for Full board.
Day 4: Lake Manyara to Serengeti National Park After breakfast, you will depart for Serengeti
National Park. Your first sight of this endless plain
is bound to impress you. Afternoon at leisure and
a sundowner game viewing of Serengeti National Park.
Dinner and Overnight Serengeti Camp Site.
Day 5: Serengeti National Park With your packed lunch boxes, you will enjoy a
full day game viewing of the Mighty Serengeti, driving
along Grumeti River and have an opportunity to view
resident herds of Wildebeest, Zebras and multitude
of Gazelles and Crocodiles. All major predators can
be seen following the herds. Dinner and Overnight
Serengeti Camp Site.
Day 6: Serengeti to Ngorongoro After breakfast, with your packed lunch boxes
descending to the foot of the Ngorongoro highlands,
we pause at Oldvuai Gorge one of the worlds greatest
archaeological sites, where Dr. Louis and Mary Leakey
discovered in 1959 the 1.75 million-year old remains
of the Zinjanthropus and in 1979 the earliest known
footprints of man. Dinner and Overnight at Ngorongoro
Simba Camp Site.
Day 7: Ngorongoro Crater With your packed lunch boxes descend 2000ft into
Africa’s Garden of Eden - The Ngorongoro Crater
for a full day game viewing. This is a spectacular
nature sanctuary and diverse terrain of its 102 square
miles basin support year round population of over
30,000 animals and over 350 species of birds. Picnic
lunch will be taken on the floor of the Ngorongoro
Crater. Later in the afternoon en-route to Arusha
for Dinner and overnight at Impala hotel.
Day 8: Arusha Leisure in Arusha and briefing on Mt. Kilimanjaro
climb. Dinner and Overnight Impala Hotel.
Day 9: Arusha to Kilimanjaro Drive to Marangu gate on Mount Kilimanjaro at
an altitude of 1800m and start our climb through the
Rainy Forest to Mandara Hut. Altitude 2700m. Duration
3 - 4hrs.
Day 10: Kilimanjaro Leave the forest and cross open moorland onto
alpine meadow. Normally, if the climate is good, then
you would have a splendid view of the peak and the
vegetation down below. Horombo Hut is reached in 6
- 7hrs. Altitude 3720m - 16kms.
Day 11: Acclimatize in Horombo.
Day 12: You continue to Kibo Hut 6 - 7hrs. Altitude
4703m.
Day 13: In the wee hrs of the morning you start for the
summit, the most demanding portion of the climb, to
Gilman's Point 5681m. It will take you 5 - 6hrs. From
here sheer determination and will power will take
you to Uhuru Peak 5895m in 2hrs to the highest point
in Africa and after a short rest descend to Kibo Hut
for tea/soup/biscuits and then down to Horombo overnight.
Day 14: After breakfast, you should by this time feel
lighter as you descend to Marangu and after your snacks
drive to Arusha. Dinner and Overnight Impala Hotel
