12 Days Tanzania-Kenya, Mt Kilimanjaro Serengeti And Masai Mara. - 12 Days

After breakfast you will be pick up by our Safaris driver-guide, thereafter you will be driven towards the escarpment into the Great Rift Valley where you will have good photos of the Rift at the viewpoint. Continue with your drive via Narok town to Maasai Mara National Reserve. You will have your lunch en-route and on arrival, if time allows you will head to the reserve for your evening game drive. Later head to the campsite for dinner and overnight. Masai Mara is the land of the Masai tribe.

After your breakfast, you will leave with your picnic lunch for a full day game drive in the reserve in search of the big five as well as other numerous plain animals. You will have a lunch break in the reserve after which continue with your game drive till evening when you will return to your campsite for dinner and overnight. You will have an opportunity to big 5 roam the vast grasslands in search for their next meal, it may be an unsuspecting impala or even a small one like the warthog.
-Azure Mara Hotel

After your breakfast then depart to Arusha via Nairobi. Our journey will take us across the border of Kenya into Tanzania. Once on the border, you will clear with the immigration procedures and then continue with your drive arriving in the picturesque town of Arusha in time for lunch. Arusha sits at the foot of rugged Mount Meru and is the gateway to most of Tanzania’s safari areas. The afternoon will be spent at leisure. Later in the evening settle down for dinner and overnight.
-The Charity Hotel

This park is to Tanzania, what the Masai Mara Game Reserve is to Kenya. Covering 14,763 sq km, the Serengeti is dominated by vast, open plains with an abundance of wildlife. A picnic lunch will be provided en-route and the afternoon will be spent viewing game led by Silver Spark Africa Safaris guide and absorbing the breathtaking scenery of the almost treeless plains of the Serengeti.
-Serengeti Hotel

Depart Serengeti for Ngorongoro crater via Olduvai Gorge. Ngorongoro is an impressive 20 km wide volcanic crater with 600 m walls. The views from the crater rim are breathtaking, and there is an ever-present abundance of wildlife, due to the permanent water supply on the crater floor. Olduvai Gorge is famed for the discovery of 3.5 million-year-old fossil fragments of early human civilization. We will enjoy lunch overlooking the crater, and the afternoon will be spent at leisure.

Octagon Lodge

A pre-departure group meeting with your mountain guide is scheduled for the early evening. Situated in the heart of a major coffee-growing region, Moshi is an attractive small town of about 150,000 people and it lies at the base of Kilimanjaro. Despite the teasing proximity of snow-capped Kilimanjaro, Moshi is not the cool highland settlement you might expect. Instead, lying at an altitude of 810 meters, it has a surprisingly humid, sticky climate, reminiscent of the coast.
-Moshi Luxury Hotel

Most of today’s day is spent in the gorgeous and fascinating forested slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, most of which is considered to be rainforest zone. It is very possible that we will see some rain today, or that at least the trail will be moist and soggy, and possibly muddy. We cover a lot of distance today, though the gradient is gradual. We climb the lower slopes of the mountain, ending at the Machame Campsite, just beyond the rain forest and within the fascinating heath-land
-Machame Camp hotel

You will reach a gentler ascent through the lower alpine moorland, which is notable for beautiful wild alpine flowers and the unique giant lobelia and giant groundsel (Senecio Kilimanjaro) plants. If it’s a clear day, you will have direct views of Kibo, the peak and ultimate goal of your adventure. After a short lunch and rest, traverse across the Shira plateau west towards a river gorge, and finally, you will reach the Shira campsite.
-Shira campsite

Today we turn east and continue to climb “pole pole” (slowly, slowly) through increasingly rocky and barren terrain. We have lunch and ascend the rocky scree path to the Lava Tower (4630m). The trek now starts to become more difficult, as the trail steepens, and most hikers start to feel the effects of the altitude, such as weakness and lack of breath. From the Lava Tower, we descend steeply for 2 hours down more than 600m into the Great Barranco Valley.

Our trail continues down into the Karanga Valley and then joins up with the Mweka route – our descent trail. In this valley, your porters will stop to collect water, as there will be none further up. Here the temperature will grow colder as we follow the trail climbing through this empty and dry landscape up to Barafu Camp. The two peaks Kibo and Mawenzi can be seen from our camp.
Barafu Camp

Today you will be woken at approximately in time to leave camp by around morning hour, and after a warm drink and a light snack, you will begin the most difficult though the most rewarding day of the trek – your hike up to the top of Africa. Climbing through the dark, you will ascend northwest on rough scree passing between the Rebmann and Tarzel glaciers. After approximately 6 hours of slow but strenuous hiking, you will reach the rim of the main crater, Stella Point, at 5685m.

Mweka Camp

Today you will wake up full of oxygen and ready to descend the short hike to the Mweka Gate. Enjoy the forest on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, and upon arrival at the Mweka gate, successful hikers will receive their summit certificates (gold for Uhuru Peale, Green for Stella point). From the Mweka Gate, you will continue down into the Mweka village for lunch, normally a muddy 1hour hike. Upon arrival to Moshi in the afternoon, relax, or have that much-deserved shower and congratulatory beverage.

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