Kilimanjaro, Safari and Zanzibar in 16 Days

A representative will collect you from Kilimanjaro International Airport and take you to your hotel in Moshi. A short briefing explains what to expect during the next seven days on the mountain. Dinner and the night at the hotel.

Drive to Machame Gate to complete registration formalities, then start climbing through thick rainforest, arriving at Machame Camp by evening. Distance: 11km. Trekking time: 5-7 hours. Zone: Rainforest.

Rainforest gives way to heath and moorland vegetation as you cross a rocky ridge onto the Shira Plateau and press on to Shira Camp. Distance: 5km. Trekking time: 4-6 hours. Zone: Heath.

The terrain turns to semi-desert and rock on the way to Lava Tower, where you stop for lunch, and then drops through the Senecio Forest to Barranco Camp. Trekking time: 6-8 hours. Distance: 10km. Zone: Alpine desert.

The route drops into a ravine at the foot of the Great Barranco Wall, which you climb (a cliff of roughly 900ft), before crossing hills and valleys into Karanga Valley. This day is shorter by design, to help with acclimatization. Distance: 5km. Trekking time: 4-5 hours.

This is a shorter trekking day to base camp, with an early dinner and a full briefing from your guide on the coming summit ascent. Go to bed early, as the departure for the summit starts around midnight. Distance: 4km. Trekking time: 4-5 hours.

Around midnight the summit push begins, and you arrive at Uhuru Peak — Africa's highest point — near sunrise. After a while to soak it in, you walk down all the way to Mweka Camp that same day. It is the longest and most demanding day of the climb. Distance: 18km. Trekking time: 13-15 hours.

The final descent through rainforest to Mweka Gate is shorter and more relaxed, and certificates are presented at the gate. You then transfer back to your hotel in Moshi for a well-earned hot shower, a proper meal and a rest day before the safari starts.

Drive from Moshi to Tarangire, noted for its big elephant herds and ancient baobab trees. In the afternoon, take a game drive along the Tarangire River, where wildlife gathers especially in the drier months. Overnight near the park.

After a morning game drive in Tarangire, you travel on to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Your night is on the crater rim, where the views plunge into the caldera below.

Go down onto the crater floor for a full day of wildlife viewing in one of Africa's most concentrated game areas, where a real chance exists of seeing all of the Big Five in one contained caldera. Late in the day you climb back to the rim.

Drive to the Serengeti, with game viewing on the way as the landscape opens out into the park's famous endless plains. On arrival, go on an afternoon game drive, then spend the night in the central Serengeti.

Today is spent around Seronera, the central area of the Serengeti, where resident lion prides roam and, depending on the season, the wildebeest migration may pass through. Expect game drives morning and afternoon, with a picnic lunch out in the park.

In the morning, you transfer to the airstrip for a flight to Zanzibar via Arusha. You are then taken to your beach accommodation and have the rest of the day free to unwind after the safari part of the trip.

An entire free day on the island: swim, snorkel, explore Stone Town, or just relax on the beach. If you would like to add something, we can arrange optional activities such as a spice tour or a sunset dhow cruise.

Depending on the time of your international flight, spend a last morning on the beach, then transfer to Abeid Amani Karume International Airport for your onward flight home.