Kilimanjaro Climb and Wildlife Safari

Arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport where you will be greeted by you Agama guide. Drive to Arusha  Serval Wildlife Lodge)   One-of-a-kind African getaway that blends wildlife, luxury, and sustainability? Serval Wildlife Lodge is more than just a lodge — it's a conservation-conscious haven nestled in the heart of Tanzania. This boutique property offers an exclusive safari experience that invites guests to stay in close harmony with nature, all while enjoying world-class amenities.

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Picture yourself talking with a beutiful giraffe, a selfie with a smiling zebras. . Briefing in the evening for your climb starting the next day.

You will be picked up at your hotel in Moshi and driven to Marangu Gate. When your guide is done dealing with all the registration forms you can start your climbing adventure! Dinner and overnight at Mandara Hut.

• 3 meals included.
• Marangu Gate (1900m) to Mandara Hut (2720m)
• Hike Time: 4 hours

The group will wake early for a filling breakfast, and then depart Mandara Hut. This trek heads to the second high altitude camp: Horombo Hut (3,720 m /12,202 f). When you reach the camp on this day, you will be treated to views of two volcanos at once: Kibo and Mawenzi.

Several hours after lunch you will have to complete an acclimatization hike in the direction of Kibo Hut with a 200 m /656 f gain in altitude, and then hike back down to Horombo Hut where dinner will be prepared for you

• Dinner and overnight at Horombo Hut. 3 meals included.
• Mandara Hut (2720m) to Horombu Hut (3720m)
• Hike time: 5-6 hours

Today we walk towards the Mawenzi Hut, passing the Zebra Rocks. This extra day and night at Horombo is for additional acclimatization. We recommend drinking enough water and walking slowly! Overnight at Horombo Hut.

• 3 meals included.
• Horombu Hut (3720m)

Wake up before midnight in the cover of darkness. We begin a steep climb over loose volcanic scree has some well-graded zig-zags and a slow but steady pace will take us to rim of the main crater, Gillman’s 5685 m. There you can rest for a few minutes to enjoy the sunrise over Mawenzi. Those who are still feeling good can continue slowly to make the three hour round trip from here along the crater rim to Uhuru peak 5895 m which is the highest point in Africa. After a few minutes to appreciate your accomplishment descend to reach Horombo Hut.

• 3 meals included.
• Kibo Hut (4700 m) to Uhuru Peak (5895m) to Horombo Hut (3720 m)
• Hike time: 13-15 hours

There is no running water at Kibo Hut. The remainder of the day is spent relaxing in preparation for the final ascent before a very early night.

• 3 meals included.
• Horombo Hut (3720m) to Kibo Hut (4700 m)
• Hike time: 4-6 hours

Today you will descend all the way down to Marangu Gate. Successful climbers will receive their summit certificates.  At the gate you will be driven back to Arusha for your celebration and overnight at serval wildlife 

• 3 meals included.
• Horombo Hut (3720m) to Marangu Gate (1900)
• Walking time: 6-7 hours
• Accommodation Serval wildlife Lodge)

Visit the inspiring AGAMA CHARITY -Harambee Centre and after lunch, drive to Tarangire National Park and the Nimali Lodge, a classic example of beautifully designed modern lodge architecture.

Tarangire is an apt place to begin a wildlife safari. Home to just about all the headliner beasts, including a large and robust elephant population, Tarangire also shelters such rarities as the fringe-eared oryx and the long-necked gerenuk, a particularly winsome and creatively constructed antelope. Tarangire charms us with its exemplary African landscapes: acacia trees, brawny brown hills, sweeping vistas, 

Clear nights of “soft velvet,” as Elspeth Huxley wrote. “[Like] a warm conservancy whose great dome was encrusted with all the diamonds in the world, and all the scents in the world were there too, changing like currents in the sea.”   NIMALI TARANGIRE

Nimali Lodge  Set alongside a dry riverbed peppered with huge granite boulders and well hidden amongst the acacia and baobab trees, Nimali Tarangire sits peacefully in its own private concession, adjacent to the eastern boundary of Tarangire National Park and, most importantly, away from the mainstream vehicles visiting the National Park. No one else is allowed to drive within our own private concession and we use open vehicles for all of our game activities. This is a true luxury African safari.

Accommodation ( Nimali Lodge)

We drive from Tarangire up into the green Crater Highlands, weaving our way to the serene and view-rich O’ldeani Mountain lodge from which we’ll make a full-day game drive into the fabled Ngorongoro Crater. As geologic masterpieces go, Ngorongoro has had quite a career. 

It’s been a gigantic peak, perhaps a rival of Kilimanjaro, and, after it blew its snowy top in what must have been a rather impressive explosion (our forefathers over at the nearby Olduvai Gorge, busy getting their humanoid act together, probably saw it), Ngorongoro spent many millennia as an alternately quiet and occasionally bubbling lava lake. 

Now in an extended pacific mood, the crater is home to upwards of 25,000 personality-rich animals, who roam—as we will—over a sweetly lush area larger than 76 Central Parks. Accommodation

O’ldeani Mountain lodge, 

After stopping at Olduvai, the symbolic wellspring of our DNA, we drop down to the Serengeti, the known universe’s largest (and, happily for us, most wonderfully watchable) collection of illustrious mammals: elephants, giraffes, tumbling pool-fulls of hippos, elegantly slinking serval cats, zebras with incredibly muscular haunches (leading us to wonder why they were never ridden— very weak backs, that’s why), and scores of species more, all of them going about their business unconcerned by the likes of us.

 (“But make no mistake,” an old Africa hand once wrote, “these aren’t theme parks. The truest owners of these lands are the animals who roam them free and, if that’s their nature, fiercely.”)

We’ll soak up the essence of the Serengeti from the Serengeti Four seasons Safari Lodge  set on an escarpment overlooking the seemingly limitless plains, enjoying a sundowner after a game drive, watching clouds build up as the day cools, big clouds that “look like you could scoop them up with a spoon,” Elspeth Huxley wrote.

 Serengeti four season lodge

Connect with your flights home and sweetly dream, perhaps, about your next AGAMA TOURS