KT 09: 16 Nights/ 17 Days Kenya, Tanzania & Mt Kilimanjaro Climbing

Day 1: Nairobi

Our representative will receive you at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and transfer you to Panafric Hotel for overnight.

Meals: Bed and Breakfast
Accommodation: Panafric Hotel

Day 2: Nairobi – Lake Nakuru

After breakfast, depart Nairobi for Lake Nakuru through the Great Rift Valley. Make a brief stop to allow you view the Rift Valley and take photos. Arrive at Lake Nakuru Lodge before lunch. Afternoon game drives in Lake Nakuru National Park, which is famous due to flamingos and rhinos.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Lake Nakuru Lodge

Day 3: Lake Nakuru – Masai Mara

After breakfast, depart Lake Nakuru for Masai Mara Game Reserve. You arrive at Mora Sopa Lodge in time for lunch. Afternoon game drives.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Mara Sopa Lodge

Day 4-5: Masai Mara

Spend the whole day in the Masai Mara plains doing game drives and on the look out for herds of wildebeests crossing the crocodile-infested Mara River. Optional evening visits to Masai cultural village to learn their culture and dances. Each visit costs USD30 per person and you pay this directly.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Mara Sopa Lodge

Day 6: Masai Mara – Serengeti

You will check out of your Mara lodge with packed lunch and depart for Serengeti via the Isabenia border. On arrival at the border point, you will be met by our Tanzania driver/guide and proceed to Serengeti to arrive late in the evening.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Accommodation: Serengeti Sopa Lodge.

Day 7-8: Serengeti

Full day in Serengeti. Serengeti National Park, undoubtedly the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world is a large national park in Serengeti area, Tanzania. It is most famous due to annual migration of over one million white bearded wildebeest and 200,000 zebra to Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Reserve in search of pasture.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Accommodation: Serengeti Sopa Lodge.

Day 9: Serengeti – Ngorongoro

Breakfast at Serengeti Sopa Lodge and check out. Drive to Ngorongoro with game drive en route in Serengeti via Olduvai Gorge. Arrive for lunch at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge. Afternoon leisure.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Accommodation: Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge

Day 10: Ngorongoro

After breakfast descend down to the crater floor for ½ day crater tour. Later return to your lodge. Later in the afternoon at leisure.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Accommodation: Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge

Day 11: Ngorongoro – Lake Manyara

Breakfast and depart to Lake Manyara, whose inhabitants include hippos, monkeys, tree climbing lions, flamingos and other varieties of birdlife.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Kirurumu Tented Lodge

Day 12: Lake Manyara – Arusha

Morning game drive. After lunch, drive to Arusha. Dinner and overnight at Impala Hotel.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Impala Hotel

Day 13: Arusha – Mandara Hut

Breakfast, drive from your hotel to Marangu gate, we will spend about two hours for registration, payments of fees and final parking. Start climbing through dense semi-tropical to the first hut- Mandara hut (9,000ft).

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Mandara Hut

Day 14: Mandara Hut – Horombo Hut

Breakfast, ascend through the alpine meadow, and grassland and moorland to Horombo hut (12,000ft). Both Mawenzi and Kibo peaks can be viewed easily on the way.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Horombo Hut

Day 15: Horombo Hut – Kibo Hut

Breakfast, further ascending to Kibo hut (15,000ft). The landscape becomes very stony and eroded. Spectacular mountain vegetation like giant cactus, groundswell and lobelia appear on the way.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Kibo Hut

Day 16: Kibo Hut – Uhuru Peak

Wake up at midnight, and after a snack, proceed to the summit through Gilman’s point (18,640ft). It is about 5-6hours and 1-2 hours from Kibo hut to Gilman’s point and from Gilman’s point to Uhuru Peak (19,340ft) respectively. Thus reaching the peak in the early morning of the fifth day and start descending after picture taking on the top to Horombo hut for dinner and an overnight after a short break at Kibo hut.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Horombo Hut

Day 17: Kibo Hut – Marangu Gate – Arusha – JRO

Breakfast and then descend from Horombo hut to Marangu gate. The waiting car will take you to Arusha for lunch at Impala Hotel and then transfer you Kilimanjaro International Airport to catch your international flight home.