13 Days Kilimanjaro Climb and Classic Safari

Our Kilimanjaro climb and Tanzania classic safari tour will enable you to climb the highest Mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro and take you to the Ngorongoro Crater, featuring one of the highest concentrations of game in Africa. Here you will witness an amazing spectacle of African wildlife inside a self-contained world teeming with animals.

The tour will further take you to the Serengeti National Park, into the heart of wild Africa, a massive wilderness of 14500 square km, where every day brings a new landscape and a new adventure. You also will visit the Lake Manyara National Park, one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a shallow but huge soda lake, at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment.

Itinerary

ARRIVAL DAY

On the arrival day, you will be picked up at the Kilimanjaro International Airport and transferred to your hotel in Moshi town; you will meet your guide who will brief you on your upcoming trek and do an equipment check to make sure you have all the necessary mountain gear. The missing gear can be rented on this day.

DAY 1: MACHAME GATE – MACHAME CAMP| RAIN FOREST

Trekking Time: 4-6 hours | Distance: 9km | Altitude Gain: 1210m
A one-hour drive from Moshi lays the gate to the Machame route, where we complete park formalities, meet our crew of porters and start to climb! The first section of the route climbs steadily and involves real jungle-bashing through magnificent forest. This path is less well-trodden & often wet & muddy underfoot. We camp at Machame camp (3100m)

DAY 2: MACHAME CAMP – SHIRA CAMP| MOORLAND

Trekking Time: 4-6 hours | Distance: 9km | Altitude Gain: 740m
The route continues on up through the forest until we are at the steep ascent on the Shira Plateau, where there are rewarding views of the mountain. Looking back, you will be able to see Mt. Meru rising high above Arusha town. We camp at Shira caves (3840m).

DAY 3: SHIRA CAMP – LAVA TOWER – BARRANCO CAMP| SEMI DESERT

Trekking Time: 6-7 hours | Distance: 15km | Altitude Gain: 60m
Walking now on high moorland, the landscape changes the entire character of the trek. We traverse the southwest side of Kilimanjaro, passing underneath the Lava Tower and the final section of the Western Breach and finally reach camp at Barranco camp (3900m). The day has been spent at altitude (up to 4600m), but we have followed the mountaineering code of walk high, sleep low to avoid altitude sickness by aiding our bodies in acclimatization.

DAY 4: BARRANCO CAMP – KARANGA CAMP| ALPINE DESERT

Trekking Time: 5-7 hours | Distance: 5km | Altitude Gain: 100m
We start the day by descending into the start of the Great Barranco, a huge ravine. We then exit steeply, up what has been termed the Breakfast Wall, which divides us from the southeastern slopes of Kibo. It is a climb over rocks, not technical but long and tiring. Passing underneath the Heim and Kersten glaciers, we head towards the Karanga Valley (4000m) for overnight.

DAY 5: HIKE KARANGA CAMP – BARAFU CAMP| ALPINE DESERT

Trekking Time: 2-4 hours | Distance: 4km | Altitude Gain: 600m
The day is characterized by a short hike on terrain formed by scree. We walk through arid and desolate land towards Barafu camp (4600m).

DAY 6: BARAFU CAMP – SUMMIT| GLACIERS

Trekking Time: 6-8 hours | Distance: 7km| Altitude Gain: 1296m
We avoid walking too long in the heat of the sun today by starting around midnight, walking steeply upwards to the Summit glaciers. You will be climbing scree for 5 to 6 hours but you gain incredible height over a short distance. The views are spectacular. We should be on the crater rim at Stella Point (5750m) as the first rays of the sun emerge. Spectacular ice cliffs within the crater surround us and the views to Mawenzi peak and beyond are breathtaking. Another hours walk takes us to our goal, the summit of Uhuru (5896m), the highest point; Uhuru means freedom in Swahili.

We begin the descent by returning to Stella Point and then descending on scree slope back to Barafu camp for breakfast and a rest before finally heading down to Millenium Camp (3000m) for a well-earned rest. On our descent we have fabulous views of the plains and Mawenzi peak.
Trekking Time: 6-8 hours | Distance: 12km | Altitude Loss: 2896m

DAY 7: MWEKA CAMP – MWEKA GATE – MOSHI| RAIN FOREST

Trekking Time: 4-5 hours | Distance: 10km | Altitude Loss: 1360m
A gentle trek takes us down through the rainforest to the Mweka Gate (1640m), where we complete park formalities, are met by our vehicles, receive your certificate of ascent courtesy of the Kilimanjaro National Park Authority and drive back to your hotel to Moshi.

DAY 8: RELAX DAY

After a successfully Kilimanjaro summit, you will spend this day at your hotel to relax and stroll around or you can walk around in this small town of Moshi with view of the mountain Kilimanjaro is as good as it reveals. We will gather in the late afternoon for a safari briefing.

DAY 9: MOSHI/ARUSHA – LAKE MANYARA PARK

You will meet our professional tour guide/driver in Arusha/Moshi, who will deliver a short safari briefing, after which, we travel to the Lake Manyara National Park. Lake Manyara is a beautiful little park which is famous for its tree-climbing lions, elephants and large troops of baboons. The park is home to an amazing variety of birds and animals considering its small size. A short visit to this serene park will greatly diversify your safari experience as the lush green jungle habitat is of stark contrast to the other parks you will visit during your safari, in the late afternoon you drive to Manyara town for overnight.

DAY 10: LAKE MANYARA PARK – SERENGETI PARK

After breakfast we head towards the central Serengeti National Park, also known as the Seronera. We descend into the heart of wild Africa-the Serengeti National Park-with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see. We head to the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attract wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti’s species. You will have a chance to witness the great wildebeest migration at central Serengeti and in the late evening you will drive to your campsite for overnights.

DAY 11: FULL DAY IN SERENGETI PARK

On this day you will spend your time at the Serengeti plains doing game drives. Here you have the choice to do the early morning game drives if you so wish. This will give you the chance to see nocturnal species retire from a night out as well as the diurnal majority waking up for a new day. In the evening you will drive to you campsite for overnights.

DAY 12: SERENGETI PARK – NGORONGORO CRATER

In the morning after breakfast you will drive to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and after registration you will descend to the Crater Floor. You will drive down the Ngorongoro Crater walls to the Crater floor where we will spend the better part of the day doing game drives in this 8th wonder of the world also referred to as the Eden of Africa. Here we will get the chance to spot the animals that we might have missed at Serengeti with a little luck you can spot the Big 5 that is; Elephants, Lions,Leopards, Buffaloes, and Rhinos, in a single day’s game drive then in the late evening we will drive to Manyara town for overnight.

DAY 13: TARANGIRE PARK – ARUSHA/MOSHI

After breakfast, we will register at the Tarangire Park gate and continue with game drives for the rest of the day as we explore the African wilderness for the last day of our safari. This park is famous for its large populations of elephants and its gigantic age-old baobabs, but it has much more to offer in terms of many animals and birds that are resident to this park. We expect to see lions, cheetahs, warthogs, gazelles, dik-diks, the rare long-necked gerenuks and many more. Later in the afternoon, we will drive back to your hotel in Arusha/Moshi and that is the end of our wonderful safari.

DEPARTURE DAY

The day is left free to wind down after the trek before your flight home. Depending on flight times you could go and explore Moshi town and grab some souvenirs before heading to the airport.

Zanzibar trip and other add-ons are available if you wish to continue exploring Tanzania.

Group price

CAMPING TOUR

$5700 per person when 1 person travels alone

$4200 per person when 2 – 4 persons travel together

$3500 per person when 5 – 6 persons travel together

LODGE TOUR

$6200 per person when 1 person travels alone

$4700 per person when 2 – 4 persons travel together

$4200 per person when 5 – 6 persons travel together

For a more accurate estimate, it's best to contact us directly and discuss your specific requirements and budget. We can provide you with a detailed quote based on your itinerary, group size, and preferred level of comfort.

What is included

Included in Mountain Trek

-2 ways transfer to and from Kilimanjaro airport.

-The Adequate and appropriate number of guides, porters, and cooks for your Trek.

-Government taxes.

-All park fees, camping fees, rescue fees, and team fees.

-Transfers to and from the route gate(s) (2 transfers).

-Sleeping mattress pad(s), dining tent(s), sleeping tent(s), and crews equipment

-Dining tent and sleeping tent for Kilimanjaro trek.

-4 nights in a hotel in Moshi on a Bed & Breakfast basis and Double Occupancy (2 nights before and after trekking & 2 nights before and after safari).

-3 full fresh meals daily. We provide fresh food on the mountain in plentiful and well prepared by skilled professional cooker (we also consider your choice of food that you would prefer -Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian).

-Hot drinks on the mountain and Hot water for washing will be provided every day on the mountain.

-3-4 liters of mineral (per Climber) provided daily during the climb.

-Hotel accommodation includes storage facilities for excess luggage during hikes.

-Kilimanjaro National Park rescue fees (Kilimanjaro Rescue Team).

-Chief guide carries a Pulse Ox meter, used to take blood-oxygen level readings of clients twice a day.

-Emergency oxygen (for use in emergencies only – not as summit aid).

-Basic first aid kit (for use in emergencies only).

-Salaries for the mountain support crew, as per required by MINISTRY OF TOURISM AND NATURAL RESOURCES

-Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as hot drinks on the mountain.

-Kilimanjaro National Park certificate for your successful summit.

Included in Safari

-Transport in 4X4 Toyota Land Cruisers with pop up roof for game viewing.