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Kili/Safari Combo Package #1

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Overview

13-day Itinerary with a 7-day Machame trek and 5-day safari (camping or lodges).

This package begins every Monday of the year. We can arrange for extra nights at the hotel in Moshi before and after your package as well as trips to Zanzibar.

Itinerary

DAY 1: Arrive at the Kilimanjaro International Airport, transfer to Moshi, overnight hotel

DAY 2: Machame Gate to Machame Camp (BLD)

1830m to 3100m
6000ft to 10,200ft
Distance: 18km
Hiking Time: 5-7 hours
Habitat: Montane Forest

It is approximately 45 minutes drive from Moshi to Machame gate. All your equipment and supplies are carried by porters; a cook will prepare all your meals. After all formalities have been taken care at the gate, head into the forest and begin the 7 hour ascent to the first camp on the mountain, Machame camp (3000m).

DAY 3: Machame Camp to Shira Camp (BLD)

3100m to 3840m
10,200ft to 12,600ft
Distance: 9km
Walking Time: 4-6 hours
Habitat: Moorland

Breakfast is served early in the mess tent and, weather permitting; you could take in your first view of the Western Breach of Kilimanjaro. The lunch stop will be reached at about 3600m and after this short lunch and rest, you will continue up the rocky ridge to the next camp on the mountain, Shira camp (3840).

DAY 4: Shira Camp to Barranco Camp (BLD)

3840m to 4630m to 3860m
12,600ft to 12,700ft
Distance: 15 km
Walking Time: 5-7 hours
Habitat: Semi-desert

The route now turns east into a semi-desert and rocky environment where you reach an altitude of 4600m after a 5 hours walk to Lava Tower. As you ascend from the Shira camp (3950m), there are good views of the Shira Plateau to the west, Oehler Ridge to the northeast and the Western Breach to the east. This day you will climb high and steep low.

DAY 5: Barranco Camp to Karanga Camp (BLD)

3860m to 4200m
12,700ft to 13,800ft
Distance: 7 km
Hiking Time: 4 hours
Habitat: Alpine Desert

The morning starts with a scramble up the almost vertical Barranco Wall to an altitude of about 4200m. After aproximately 3 hours, the path crosses through the southern slopes to reach the Karanga Valley.

DAY 6: Karanga Camp to Barafu Camp (BLD)

4200m to 4600m
13,800ft to 15,100ft
Distance: 7km
Hiking Time: 4 hours
Habitat: Alpine Desert

After breakfast, you continue in a southeasterly direction to the junction before turning north to reach Barafu camp (4600m) after about 4 hours. Here you take a long rest and prepare for the midnight ascent to the summit.

DAY 7: Barafu Camp to Uhuru Peak (BLD)

4600m to 5895m (and down to 3100m)
15,100ft to 19,300ft (and down to 10,200ft)
Distance: 7km ascent / 23km descent
Hiking Time:6- 8 hours ascent / 7-8 hours descent
Habitat: Stone scree and ice-capped summit

At around midnight, you will head in a northwesterly direction up the southeast valley towards Stella Point on the crater rim. The 6 hour long walk to Stella Point is a mental and physical challenge with the steep face just below Stella posing the ultimate challenge. If you are able, continue to the summit of Uruhu Peak. The walk back to Mweka Camp from the summit can take over 7 hours.

DAY 8: Mweka Camp to Mweka Gate (BL)

3100m to 1830m
10,200ft to 6000ft
Distance: 15 km
Hiking Time: 3-4 hours
Habitat: Forest

You will camp for the night at Mweka camp (3100m) before departing for the Mweka Parks Gate the next morning where your driver will pick up and take you back to the Keys Hotel/Alternative Hotel for overnight.

DAY 9: Lake Manyara (BLD)

The drive from Moshi to Manyara National Park, can take approximately 4 hours. After a picnic lunch, you spend the late afternoon with a game drive, which is also the best time to view animals in this park. When you approach it from the east, the Rift Valley escarpment looms on the horizon forming an impressive backdrop to the lake. In the tall trees, forest monkeys leap from branch to branch, and on the escarpment, elephants stand in the shade of acacia. Other animals frequently seen are leopards, zebras, impalas, monkeys, giraffes, buffalos, hippos and others. Overnight at the Twiga basic camp or Wildlife Lodges.

DAY 10: Serengeti (BLD)

Drive to Serengeti National Park via Olduvai Gorge. Olduvai George is an archaeological site, in which some of the earliest human fossils were discovered. It has amazing landscape that resulted from tectonic forces which created the Great Rift Valley million of years ago. Then, drive to Serengeti for afternoon game drive and overnight at the Wildlife Lodges or Tented Camp.

DAY 11: Serengeti (BLD)

After breakfast, venture into the corners of wilderness Serengeti for a full day game viewing in the park. With a picnic lunch, take your leisure while exploring this world heritage site, where the largest concentration of plains game animals on earth still exists! In the early evening, head back for dinner and overnight at Wildlife Lodges or Tented Camp.

DAY 12: Serengeti to Ngorongoro (BLD)

After a morning game drive in the Serengeti, the afternoon is driving to Ngorongoro then to Simba campsite or Wildlife Lodges for dinner and overnight.

DAY 13: Ngorongoro (BL)

After breakfast, enjoy a half-day game drive in Ngorongoro Crater. This is undoubtedly the best place to see black rhino in Tanzania as well as the prides of lion that include the magnificent black maned males. There are colorful flamingoes and a variety of water birds. Other game such as leopard, cheetah, hyena and lots of other members of the antelope family and small mammals of sorts can also be seen. In the afternoon, drive to the airport to catch the flight back home (Kilimanjaro Airport).

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NOTE: Minimum group size for this tour will be 2 people and the maximum will be 16 people.

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