10 Days Mount Kilimanjaro Rongai Route Trek & Safari

On arrival at the Kilimanjaro International Airport, you will be met by our Tranquil Kilimanjaro staff. After being greeted at the airport, you will be driven to your hotel or lodge in Moshi for the night. After a short briefing about your 10-day Mount Kilimanjaro Route trek and northern Tanzania wildlife trip, you will have dinner and stay overnight.

• Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included)
• Drinks not included

With breakfast and a briefing, your day begins early. The 4-5 hour journey to the charming wooden town of Nale Muru (1,950 m/6,398 ft) involves passing through several communities and coffee fields. You start your journey on a broad trail that winds past fields of potatoes and maize before entering a pine forest after checking in and getting the porters ready. Then you begin to gradually but steadily rise through a lovely woodland that provides refuge for a variety of creatures. Simba Camp (2,600 m/8,530 ft), which has expansive views of the Kenyan plains, is located close to the “First Cave” at the border of the moorland zone where the forest starts to thin out.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included.

Your morning hike leads you steadily upward to the Second Cave. You will get wonderful views of Kibo and the eastern ice fields on the crater rim as you travel.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included.

You reach the Third Cave as you continue your steady ascent. The eastern ice fields on the crater rim are drawing you closer now, higher. Watch out for any indications of altitude sickness on this day.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included.

Today you trek up to the Kibo Huts at the base of the Kibo crater wall, where you connect to the well-known Marangu Route. Plan to trek early in the day, then take a nap before making the last ascent. Prepare your summit climb gear and warm attire, then go to bed early.

• All meals included

At midnight, have a quick breakfast before getting ready to climb the top. The objective is to ascend before daybreak in order to reach Uhuru Peak just after the sun rises. Leave at 1 AM, switchback up an incline of steep scree or perhaps snow, and arrive between 5 and 7 AM to Gilman’s Point on the crater rim at 5,861 m/18,640 ft. You can see the storied crater and its icecaps from here. By 9 AM, you will reach Uhuru Peak, the actual summit of Kilimanjaro, after another two hours of climbing around the crater rim close to the famous snows. You would need to go more than 3,000 miles to the Himalayas to discover a mountain higher than this one, which is Africa’s highest point.

Take a photo of yourself at the peak to show your friends. Return to the Kibo Huts after your summit stays, have lunch there, take a break, gather your belongings, and then cross the saddle to the Horombo Huts. Get some well-deserved rest after supper!

With flashlights or headlamps, you start this ascent in the dark. Up until you begin descending, it will be quite cold, so make sure you are wearing all of your warm clothing. The trek’s most challenging section is by far this. You can get there by moving slowly, or “pole pole,” and by being positive.

• All meals included

As per normal, get up, pack, and make your way to the Mandara Huts via the moorland. The park entrance should be reached by 2 or 3 PM after you finish your lunch there and continue your triumphal descent down into the lovely woodland. Given that you will be leaving them here, don’t forget to tip your guides, cooks, and porters. You’ll be transported back to your Hotel or lodge in Moshi or any comparable Moshi hotel when it’s time to celebrate!

• Meals: Breakfast & Lunch Included

It takes roughly 4 hours to drive from Moshi to Lake Manyara National Park. The greatest time to see animals in this park is in the late afternoon game drive, which you begin after a picnic lunch in Manyara. The East Rift Valley escarpment forms a stunning back wall to the lake when you approach it from that direction. Elephants recline in the shadow of baobab on the escarpment while monkeys jump from branch to branch in the thick trees of the groundwater forest. Zebras, impalas, monkeys, giraffes, buffalo, hippos, and other creatures are also commonly observed. Full-board lodging for the night at the Highview Hotel or a comparable hotel.

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

A half-day wildlife drive around the Ngorongoro Crater is enjoyable. This is the ideal location in Tanzania to witness black rhinos and a lion pride that includes gorgeous males with black manes. Numerous colorful flamingos and different aquatic birds may be seen. You could also spot tiny animals, the antelope family’s other members, the leopard, cheetah, and hyena. For lunch, return to the Highview Hotel. You may stroll through coffee farms in the late afternoon to take in the sights of waterfalls and wildlife. Afterward, spend the remainder of the day at the Highview Hotel.

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Three hours are needed to go from the Highview Hotel to Tarangire National Park. The dry season, when many migratory animal species return to the Tarangire River’s perennial waters, is when this park is at its most breathtaking. Huge herds of wildebeest, zebras, elephants, elands, and oryx congregate in Tarangire and remain there until the start of the rainy season when they go once more for suitable grazing grounds. Drive back to your Hotel in Moshi in the late evening.

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)