11 Days Machame Climb And Safari
For this Package you will have 7 Days Machame Route and the visit of Tarangire, lake manyara national park and Ngorongoro Crater. We have a room to customize this package in accordance with your needs.
This 12 Days Tanzania Holiday tour is a standard Tanzania Safari and Kilimanjaro Hiking experience for those who have around a two week holiday in Tanzania (Including Arrival and departure days).
All trekkers need to organize their own flights to Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO). From JRO we will arrange a private transfer to your hotel. That night or early the next morning you will meet your local representative and have a full pre-climb briefing.
Transport: Private transfer
Accommodation: Hotel
Transfer from your hotel to Machame Gate for registration. Our porters prepare and pack our supplies and luggage before we start our ascent along the forest trail to Machame Camp at 3000m. We will stay here overnight.
Transport: Private transfer
Hiking time: 6 - 7 hours
Ascent: 1200m, Max. altitude: 3000m
Accommodation: Camping
Meals included: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner
After breakfast we start walking, leaving the rainforest behind, and continue our ascent, crossing a small valley and up to a steep rocky ridge, covered with heather. Our route now turns west into a river gorge until we reach Shira Cave Camp. It will be colder tonight than the previous night with temperatures possibly falling below freezing.
Hiking time: 5 - 6 hours
Ascent: 850m, Max. altitude: 3850m
Accommodation: Camping
Meals included: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner
Today we will climb up to 4600m to the base of the Lava Tower for lunch and acclimatisation. After lunch we will descend again by almost 650m to Barranco Camp, following the ‘walk high, sleep low’ golden rue of acclimatisation. Our descent to Barranco Camp takes about 2 hours and offers great opportunities to take some beautiful photographs of the Western Breach and Breach Wall.
Hiking time: 6 - 7 hours Ascent: 750 m Descent: 650 m Max. altitude: 4600 m
A short, but fun, day starting with a scramble to the top of the Great Barranco Wall. We then traverse over the scree to the Karanga Valley (3930m) beneath the icefalls of the Heim, Kersten and Decken Glaciers. We will stay overnight at Karanga campsite.
Hiking time: 4 hours
Ascent: 260m, Descent: 280m
Max. altitude: 4210m
Accommodation: Camping
Meals included: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner
We leave Karanga campsite behind to meet the junction connecting with the Mweka descent trail. From here we continue up to Barafu Camp. Here we can rest, enjoy dinner, and prepare for the summit day. The camp offers amazing views of the summit and the two peaks of Mawenzi and Kibo.
Hiking time: 4 - 5 hours
Ascent: 465m, Max. altitude: 4675m
Accommodation: Camping
Meals included: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner
You will be woken around 23:30 with tea and biscuits. We start our trek to the summit between the Rebman and Ratzel glaciers through heavy scree up to Stella Point on the crater rim. This is the most mentally and physically challenging part of the trek. At Stella Point (5732m), we will stop for a short rest and hopefully be in time to witness the magnificent sunrise (weather permitting). We are now only an hour away from the summit, Uhuru Peak (5895m), the highest point on Mount.
On your final day on the trek, departing after breakfast we descend a further 1300m to the Mweka Park Gate to pick up your summit certificates from the Park Headquarters. Transfer to your hotel in Arusha for overnight.
Transport: Private transfer Hiking time: 3 - 4 hours Descent: 1300 m Max. altitude: 3100 m Accomodation: Hotel Meals included: Breakfast
Our safari guide and vehicle will collect you from your hotel and we will drive to Lake Manyara, arriving with plenty of time for an afternoon game-drive. Located beneath the cliffs of the Manyara Escarpment, on the edge of the Rift Valley, Lake Manyara National Park is famous for its large alkaline soda lake which is home to the pink flamingo, yellow-billed stork and heron. If you are lucky you may get a chance to see the tree climbing lions, which are unique to this national park.
After an early breakfast, we will drive to the fascinating wildlife arena of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a “must see” safari destination. Home to more than 25,000 large mammals, it is not unusual to see all of the ‘Big Five’ . It is now the largest intact volcanic caldera in the world and often referred to as “Africa’s Eden”. Driving through the Ngorongoro Highlands, we will arrive at the crater rim and then descend down 610m (2000 feet) onto its floor to start our safari
The Tarangire River runs through the park attracting a huge number of elephants, buffalo, giraffe and antelope, particularly in the dry season between June to October. It is not uncommon to see large herds of elephants roaming through Tarangire's savannah grasses. Late afternoon we will start our journey back to Arusha for transfer to Kilimanjaro airport. We expect to be back in Arusha by 5pm, so you will need to book a flight that departs after 9pm.
