14 Days North Tanzania Safari & Kilimanjaro

On this day you will arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport where our guide will meet and transfer you to your hotel in Arusha.

Dinner and overnight accommodation at your hotel in Arusha.

From day two to day seven(inclusive), you will climb and descend Mount Kilimanjaro on either Machame Route, Rongai Route or Umbwe Route; you will do the six days version of whichever of the three routes you select. Please follow the links in the tour details section above to see the detailed day by day climbing itinerary for each of these routes.

On the final day of descent from the mountain(the seventh day), our driver will be waiting for you at the mountain gate; from here, he will drive you to your hotel in Arusha. The rest of the day will be spent relaxing in preparation for the next day when you will start a Northern Tanzania safari.

After breakfast in your hotel at Arusha, you will be driven to Tarangire National Park for a day of game viewing.

Although Tarangire National Park is dominated by elephants, you will also see giraffes, waterbucks, impalas, baboons, warthogs, pods of hippos and spotted hyenas. Lions, leopards, and cheetahs also reside in the park but are not very easy to spot.

Dinner and overnight accommodation at a lodge around Tarangire.

After breakfast, you will be driven from Tarangire National Park to Lake Manyara National Park for a day of game viewing. Lake Manyara National park is located on the base of the escarpment of the Great Rift Valley; here, you will elephants, the world famous tree climbing lions, giraffes, buffaloes, wildebeests, hippos, impalas, baboons, and monkeys.

Another attraction in this park is Lake Manyara which a shallow and extensive soda lake that attracts resident and migratory birds; the most noticeable of these birds are the pink-hued flamingos.

In the evening, you will be driven to Karatu for dinner and overnight accommodation.

After breakfast, you will be driven to Ngorongoro Crater which is home to approximately 30,000 animals at any time; it is the largest unflooded caldera in the world and it has the highest concentration of animals in Africa. At Ngorongoro, human and wild animals co-exist; the Maasai people live and graze their animals inside the crater along the wild animals.

On this day you will see herds of buffalos, elands, zebras, wildebeests, warthogs, hippos, rhinos and elephants. You will also see predators such as lions, cheetahs, leopards and hyenas who thrive here due to the rich availability of prey.

In the evening you will be driven to a hotel on the crater rim for dinner and overnight accommodation.

After an early breakfast, you will be driven to the endless plains of Serengeti; Serengeti is Tanzania’s most visited national park. On arrival, you will go for an afternoon game drive before being driven to your hotel/camp for dinner and overnight accommodation.

This day will be spent doing game drives inside the Serengeti National park. After breakfast, you will go out for a morning game drive; the early morning is a good time to see animals before they take shade from the African sun. Today you will see Africa’s top predators and big game in their natural environment; you will see lions, leopards, hyenas, cheetahs, giraffes, elephants, hippos and the great herds of wildebeests and zebras.

The location of the herds will depend on the season; during the short rainy season, the great herds tend to move from the northern hills towards the southern plains while during the long rainy season the herds move back north to the hills.

Dinner and overnight accommodation a lodge or camp inside the Serengeti.

After breakfast you will set out of your camp or lodge on your way to Arusha; along the way, you will enjoy your final game viewing before leaving the park; during this final game drive, you may see some animals that you were not lucky to see the previous days.

If your flight back home leaves that night you will be transferred to the airport; otherwise, dinner and overnight accommodation in your hotel in Arusha.

Today you will be transferred to Kilimanjaro International Airport to catch your flight back home.