13-Day Explore Great Migration Safari & Kilimanjaro Marangu Trekking

Program of the day: Upon your arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, our safari driver guide will be waiting for you at the airport to transfer you to the hotel in Arusha for your accommodation and overnight stay. Take some time to relax at the lodge or hotel and prepare for the next day of your safari.  Welcome to the start of your safari and welcome to Tanzania! You've chosen a fantastic place for your safari journey and we'll get you started with an introductory briefing before we head out to begin the trip you've been dreaming of. The streets of Arusha are fantastic places for you to learn a little more about local life in a northern Tanzanian city. Apart from the endless fascination of life on these busy streets, there are museums, markets, and a rewarding local food scene for you to experience.

Program of the Day: After breakfast, our tour guide driver will pick you up from the lodge early in the morning and we will start a fantastic journey to Tarangire National Park with packed lunch boxes. Tarangire Park is well known for its large elephant herds and consists of a diversity of landscapes, from seasonal swamps to savannas with the Tarangire River winding its way through, providing opportunities to see leopards relaxing in the trees above.

Once the game drives are done, we will head back to your lodge for relaxation, dinner, and an overnight stay. After dinner, you will be picked up for the night game drive  Explore one of Tanzania’s most rewarding national parks, a land of big baobab trees, big elephants and big cats. No wonder this ends up being the favourite park in Tanzania for many visitors. Sightings of wildebeest, giraffes, hippos, buffaloes, baboons, vervet monkeys and zebras are also almost guaranteed. Lions are plentiful here – Tarangire is home to one of Tanzania’s healthiest lion populations. While you’ll have to work a little harder to see a cheetah or leopard, it will only enhance your excitement when you do. You can also look forward to classic safari scenery – savannah plains, river woodlands and rocky hills.

In the busy provincial town of Karatu, with its constant stream of passing tourist traffic, the many places to stay mean you can rest from life on the road here. It’s big enough to have banks, shops (for both supplies and souvenirs) and a few roadside restaurants where locals eat.

Program of the Day: After breakfast, you will depart Central Serengeti National Park for a wildlife game drive, with lunch boxes in hand. You will enjoy lunch at a suitable location within the park and continue the game drive activity in the afternoon before reaching the camp. Over the next two days, we will spend the entire day inside the park for game drives. When you explore the Central Serengeti, you are enjoying one of the best wildlife destinations in northern Tanzania. Here you'll find the big populations of wildlife for which the Serengeti is famous. You'll also have a chance to see big cats. This area has plenty of northern Tanzania's iconic acacia trees as well as seemingly endless Serengeti horizons. Experience small-town Tanzania in this lively roadside town. Karatu has markets, banks, shops and simple local restaurants, not to mention plenty of places to stay.

Program of the day: After breakfast, you will be transferred to the northern Serengeti, specifically the Mara River region, where you will witness the great migration crossing the Mara River. Our driver guide will find the best location where you will be able to witness the migration up close. In the Serengeti's far north, the Mara River is a top spot for wildlife. Not many travelers get to know the Northern Serengeti where you can explore rolling hills, grasslands, woodlands and the Mara River. You won't see many other vehicles as you look for big cats and elephants. Viewing the great migration is one of the highlights of any safari, and we'll take you to see this extraordinary natural spectacle. Enjoy watching epic numbers of wildlife pass across the landscape and keep an eye out for predators ready to pounce

Program of the day: Wake up early and enjoy breakfast, then go on a game drive with a picnic lunch box in Northern Serengeti, keeping an eye out for the Great Migration. Afterwards, we will drive back to Central Serengeti for an overnight stop.

Program of the day: After breakfast, we will depart for Ngorongoro Conservation Area with picnic lunch boxes for a game drive inside the crater. You will have the chance to relax and immerse yourself in a new environment, providing great photography opportunities and the chance to explore this UNESCO World Heritage site. Your day in and around Ngorongoro Crater could just be one of the most memorable of your whole safari. You’ll explore the crater rim and then drive down onto the crater floor, where the critically endangered black rhinos are the stars of an astonishing wildlife show. You’ll almost certainly see large-tusked elephants, at least one of the Ngorongoro’s four lion prides, and wandering clans of spotted hyenas. It also just happens to be one of Africa’s most beautiful corners, a hidden world where you’ll be surrounded by steep, deep-green crater walls, a salt lake, forests and hippo-filled waterways. After a game drive you will be transferred to MoshiKilimanjaro for your overnight and preparation for your next day Mountain trekking adventure through Lemosho route

Program of the Day: After breakfast, we will depart for Lake Manyara for wildlife game drives, bringing along lunch boxes. Once we finish the game drive, we will transfer you to Moshi Town for relaxation, dinner, and an overnight stay. Lake Manyara National Park will allow you to tick off so many unique safari highlights, including many that you just won’t find elsewhere. Unlike the elephants you’ll see in other parks, Lake Manyara’s inhabit dense forest – there’s nothing quite like your experience of an elephant suddenly emerging from behind the nearest tree. Also, you’re just as likely to see lions here draped along a branch high in a tree as down on the ground. And baboons. Lots of baboons. The views you’ll see here, too, persist in your memory long after you’ve returned home, thanks to the combination of lake, forest and sheer cliffs, all within just a few kilometres

Program of the day: Departing from Moshi a 45-minute drive will take you through the Village of Marangu to the Kilimanjaro National Park Gate. We will patiently wait for our permits to be issued while watching the hustle and bustle of operations as many crews prepare for the journey ahead Enjoy the beautiful rainforest scenery and windy trails while your guide tells you about the local flora and fauna and natural wildlife. At these lower elevations, the trail can be muddy and quite slippery. We highly recommend gaiters and trekking poles here.

• -Elevetion: 1870m to 2700m.

• -Distance: 8.3km

• -Hiking Time: 3 hours

Program of the day: After a good night's sleep and a hearty breakfast, we emerge from the rain forest and continue on an ascending path, through heathland, looking for giant lobelias and groundsels. Continue up into open moorlands where small shrubs are the main vegetation. Stop halfway for lunch, to enjoy amazing views of Mawenzi. Arrive at the Horombo Huts late afternoon beneath the spectacular Kibo Summit viewpoint. Temperatures begin to drop.

• - Elevation: 2700m to 3700m

• - Distance covered: 12.5km

• - Hiking time: 9 hours.

Program of the day: After breakfast, we continue through the dwindling heathland that blends into a moonscape as you enter the sweeping saddle connecting Mawenzi and Kibo. Here while we stop for lunch, and later when you cross this surprisingly large saddle, you can examine the summit climb up Kibo that you will be starting in just a few hours.

• - Elevation: 3700m to 4700m

• - Distance covered: 9.5km

• - Hiking time taken: 7 hours.

Program of the day: Excitement is building as morning comes with an early start between midnight and 2 a.m. This is the most mentally and physically challenging portion of the trek. We continue our way to the summit in a switchback formation, trying to stay warm and focused on the amazing sense of accomplishment that lies ahead. With a switchback motion, we ascend through heavy scree and possibly snow toward Gillman’s Point on the crater rim. You will be rewarded with the most magnificent sunrise during your short rest here. Faster hikers may view the sunrise from the summit. Congratulations! One step at a time, you have now reached Uhuru Peak, the highest point on Mount Kilimanjaro and the entire continent of Africa! After photos and celebrations, we take a few moments to enjoy this incredible accomplishment, and then, spending a few moments taking in the plains of Africa and your accomplishments, we descend to Horombo Hut.

• Elevation: 4700m to 5895m to 3700m

• -Distance covered: 22km

• - Hiking time taken: 12–15 hours

Program of the day: After breakfast and a heartfelt ceremony of appreciation and team bonding with your crew, it’s time to say goodbye. We continue the descent down stopping at the Mandara Huts for lunch. Remember to tip your guides, cooks, and porters, since you will be leaving them here. You return to the Marangu Park Gate and receive your summit certificates. As the weather is drastically warmer, the terrain is wet, muddy, and steep, and we highly recommend Gaiters and trekking poles. From the gate, a vehicle will meet you to drive you back to your hotel in Moshi (about 45 minutes). Enjoy a long-overdue hot shower, dinner, and celebrations!

• -Elevation: 3700 to 1870m

• -Distance covered: 20.8km

• -Hiking time taken: 8 hours.

Program of the day: The day is left free to wind down after the trek before your flight home. Depending on flight times, you could go and explore Moshi town and grab some souvenirs before heading to Kilimanjaro International Airport or Arusha for your flight home or another destination.  All good things must come to an end, and your time with us on safari in Tanzania will now draw to a close. We're sure that you've had a wonderful time.