This program includes pick up from the airport soon after your arrival. Our guide will give you a short briefing about your trek before driving to the hotel in Moshi.

• Elevation: 6,000ft – 9,000ft • Distance: 7 km • Hiking time: 4-5 hours • Habitat: Montane Forest Wake up at your lodge, have breakfast, and get our driver ready for the drive to the Marangu Gate. After you pass the customs, we will begin our hike through the rainforest covering the foot of this giant mountain. You may need gaiters or trekking poles to hike past muddy and slippery, which is common in the lower down of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

• Elevation: 9,000ft – 12,100ft • Distance: 11 km. • Hiking time: 6–8 hours • Habitat: Heath After breakfast, we continue hiking through the rainforest for hours before emerging into the heath and moorland. Enjoy the spectacular views of the two peaks of Kilimanjaro as we hike through the heathland. We’ll rest for a moment on our way to eat lunch, and then proceed with our hike to Horombo Hut. After arriving at this camp, your chef will prepare a hot dinner and hot washing water for you. After dinner, you will sleep overnight.

• Elevation: 12,100ft – 15,100ft (and back to 12,100ft) • Hiking time: 6-8 hours • Habitat: Heath We will spend this day hiking to Mawenzi Hut and back to Horombo Hut for acclimatization. You will start your hike and finish it at the same altitude. We’ll have our lunch at Mawenzi Hut, rest a little bit, and return to Horombo Hut for dinner and overnight sleep.

• Elevation: 12,100ft – 15,400ft • Distance: 10 km • Hiking time: 6-8 hours • Habitat: Alpine Desert After breakfast, we’ll ascend through heathland and enter an alpine desert. Our hike protrudes through this alpine desert until we hit the saddle that connects the Kibo and Mawenzi. We’ll arrive at Kibo Hut. Our routines will end very early with an early dinner and sleep early in preparation for the summit attempt, which will begin shortly at midnight.

• Elevation: 15,400ft – 19,340ft ascent & 19,340ft – 12,100ft descent • Distance: 4 km ascent & 14 km descent • Hiking time: 10-15 hours • Habitat: Arctic – Heath Your mountain guide will wake you up at midnight (00:30 a.m.) for preparation before you start your awaited hike to the summit. At around 01:30, you will begin your hike. For the next four hours, you will be hiking up the steepest part of the trail until you hit the Gilliman’s Point (5685m). As we hike past Mawenzi, you will be rewarded with an illuminating sunrise, and from there, we will have another 45 minutes of hiking to Uhuru Peak at 5985m. Congratulations! You are standing on Africa’s highest peak. Enjoy the scenes of this wonderful peak by taking photos and spectacular views of glaciers and snow. After that, we will begin our descent to Horombo Hut for dinner and overnight stopping at Kibo Hut for lunch.

• Elevation: 12,000ft – 6,000ft • Distance: 18 km • Hiking time: 5-7 hours • Habitat: Rainforest After breakfast, we proceed to descend through the montane forest, and finally reach Marangu Gate where you will collect your summit certificates. From Marangu Gate, we will drive to your lodge.

After breakfast, we travel to Tarangire National Park. We will spend a full day exploring this wonderful park on a game drive. As we drive through the stunning natural vegetation dotted with acacia and baobab trees, we encounter beautiful games such as buffalo, elephant, lion, eland, the fringe-eared Oryx, lesser and greater kudu, and gerenuk. Along the mighty Tarangire River, we see eye-catching birds such as Ashy starling that live in the riverine forests. As we drive further to the south of Tarangire, we will meet with swamps that refuge thousands of animals looking for water. We’ll return to your chosen accommodation in Tarangire for dinner and overnight Tarangire National Park is an off-the-beaten-path destination to view games, landscapes, and stunning vegetation. It is famous for its largest herds of elephants that roam freely on its verdant plains. These African giant land animals become highly concentrated in this park, especially during the dry season when most national parks become dry, thus serving as the lifeline. Tarangire is also home to the highest count of birds of over 550 bird species. The oldest baobab trees are also attractive. They are said to be over 300 years old.

You will enjoy a buffet breakfast at your lodge and drive to Lake Manyara. Lake Manyara National Park’s largest area (two-thirds) is taken by Lake Manyara, which is a wonderful soda lake in northern Tanzania. Lake Manyara will stun you with its unique tree-climbing lions as well as the pink flamingos that decorate the shores of this alkaline lake. We will also likely encounter other games as we drive through the wilderness of this majestic park. We will return to your accommodation for dinner and overnight.

After breakfast, we’ll set up a drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area, stopping for a few minutes at a Maasai village. We’ll drive into the majestic Ngorongoro Crater, the most spectacular wildlife sanctuary on earth. You will be equipped with a lunch box for a picnic lunch in the crater. On our 4x4-wheel drive, you will explore this intact caldera, which boasts the largest concentration of big games including the Big Five and other animals such as wildebeests, antelopes, zebras, gazelles, and many others. After a game drive, we will drive back to your accommodation facility in Arusha when it hits late afternoon for dinner and overnight.

Our driver will take you from your accommodation in Arusha and hurry to the airport for your flight back home.