Guide

SAFARI GUIDES: Kilimanjaro Trekking Mate - provides best trained Professional Safari Guides – With a minimum of 11 years’ experience in the field, they have superior wildlife spotting skills and offer local insights that can’t be found in guide books. More than leaders, spotters, and wildlife experts, they are true ambassadors for Tanzania.

Transport

•4x4 Land Cruiser transportation including unlimited mileage on safari Our safari vehicles are specially outfitted 4-wheel drive Stretched Land Cruisers providing for maximum flexibility, comfort, and wildlife viewing. Your private safari includes exclusive use of this vehicle with no mileage restrictions and unlimited game drives for the duration of your safari. Our spacious Stretched Land Cruisers are the most ideal safari vehicle and come equipped with a total of eight seats with six of those seats in the back.

Meals

•Full board basis on safari ( breakfast, lunch and dinner ) •Mineral water on board safari vehicle.

Others

Tour Price Inclusions: •All park entrance fees and administrative costs (Value added Tax-VAT 18%) •4x4 Land Cruiser transportation including unlimited mileage on safari •Experienced Safari guides (employee has eleven years’ experience in the safari industry) •Full board basis on safari ( breakfast, lunch and dinner ) •Mineral water on board safari vehicle. •4 nights - (Standard Lodges and Tented Lodge), room double/twin sharing) •Arrival and departure airport transfers/ Kilimanjaro international airport (JRO). •Two nights’ Accommodation in Moshi/Arusha - one night before your safari and one night after your safari at Panama Garden Resort or Park view inn (including bed and breakfast).

Accommodation

Two nights’ Accommodation in Moshi/Arusha - one night before your safari and one night after your safari at Panama Garden Resort or Park view inn (including bed and breakfast). •4 nights safari lodges - (Standard Lodges and Tented Lodge), room double/twin sharing) Lodges And Luxury Tented Camps: •One night accommodation @ Marera valley lodge or Bougainvillea safari lodge, •Two nights accommodation@ Embalakai luxury tented camps •One night accommodation @ Ngorongoro Wildlife lodge or Rhino lodge

Not included:

Others

Tour Price Exclusions -beverages at the Lodges/ Luxury Tented Lodge. -visa fees, -health/travel insurance, -Airline tickets; (international and domestic flights) -Tips for safari guide -A hot air Balloon safari.

Insurance

Kilimanjaro Trekking Mate does not provide travel insurance therefore the client must obtain travel insurance from their home country.

Flights

-Airline tickets; (international and domestic flights), are not included Arrival: If you are arriving at either Kilimanjaro International Airport or Arusha Airport, then airport transfers to and from those airports are included in your trip, we strongly suggest you to email your flight ticket to your Tour Agent / Tour Consultant so we can arrange your transfers accordingly. Our office driver will display your name on a Kilimanjaro Trekking Mate signboard. These procedures ensure that you are picked up by the correct driver at the Airport. Visa Requirements: Make sure that you have a valid passport whose expiry date is sufficient for you to be allowed to enter Tanzania. (Usually, the expiry date must be at least six months from the date of travel, for tourists, and longer for business travelers. With the exception of those travelling from certain African countries (and a few other countries), all visitors to Tanzania must have a valid visa. It is the responsibility of travelers to arrange this. Visas are best arranged in advance. If you are arriving at Kilimanjaro International Airport, without having arranged a visa in advance, please follow the procedure outlined below, to ensure that you get the correct visa and meet up with your driver-guide outside the arrival door: 1.Complete the visa request form (either on the ﬂight or on arrival). 2.Join the queue for one of the visa counters – please don’t let yourself be assisted by anybody at the airport or be persuaded to give your visa money to anyone apart from the staff at the counter. 3.Pay for the visa – USD 100 per person for US nationals and USD 50 per person for nationals of other countries (visa fees are payable in cash ONLY and US bills should not be older than 2006). 4.Make sure that you get a receipt for this transaction – the receipt is yellowish- orange color with a silver seal sticker. 5.Verify that the number on the receipt is the same as the one written on top of the visa stamp on your passport. 6.Queue up for your ﬁngerprints and passport. 7.Collect your luggage and leave by the exit. 8.Outside the exit door you will see our driver guide holding the ‘Kilimanjaro Trekking Mate’ signboard.

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Day 1 Day 1: Arrival Date
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 1: Arrival Date

Your Kilimanjaro Trekking Mate guide will meet you at Kilimanjaro International Airport and escort you to tonight’s accommodations in Moshi/Arusha. As local Tanzanians, our guides know the country with unrivaled familiarity, so you’ll be in good hands from the moment you land to the moment you leave.
Day 2 Day 2: Moshi/Arusha To Tarangire National Park
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: Moshi/Arusha To Tarangire National Park

Morning Head off for Tarangire National Park, where ancient baobab trees tower over some of the largest herds of elephants in all of Africa. Keep a lookout for the hundreds of bird species Tarangire is known for—and dramatic interactions between predator and prey at the park’s watering holes. Late evening we leave the park and drive to Mto wa Mbu near Lake Manyara /Karatu, dinner and overnight at Marera Valley odge.
Day 3 Day 3: Serengeti National Park.
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 3: Serengeti National Park.

After breakfast, we will set off for Serengeti National Park with picnic lunch, and game drives en route, afternoon game in Serengeti Central Part.

Tanzania’s oldest and most popular national park. A UNESCO world heritage site and recently proclaimed the 7th wonder of the world, Serengeti is famed for its annual migration where some six million hooves pound the open plains. Serengeti offers an exotic game viewing experience in the whole of Africa giving you an up-close look of the animals you’ve only seen in National Geographic: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala and Grant’s gazelle.

Dinner and overnight at Embalakai tented lodge,
Day 4 Day 4: Serengeti National Park
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: Serengeti National Park

We have another exciting day of exploring the Serengeti National Park ahead of us. With lunch boxes provided we continue with game drives throughout the afternoon, scanning the endless plains, spotting many animals and truly realizing just why this national park is so famous. In the late afternoon we drive back to the lodge / campsite for dinner and overnight.

There’s an option of doing a Hot Air Balloon at this area for additional cost.
Day 5 Day 5: Serengeti To Ngorongoro Conservation Area
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 5: Serengeti To Ngorongoro Conservation Area

After breakfast you will spend your morning today continuing to explore the central Serengeti plains. Towards the early afternoon you will start your journey back to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and spend your night inside of the Conservation area near the crater rim.

Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro wildlife lodge.
Day 6 Day 6: Ngorongoro Crater / Arusha/Moshi
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 6: Ngorongoro Crater / Arusha/Moshi

Today we descend into Ngorongoro Crater to explore the panoramic, game-rich prairies of this ancient volcanic caldera. Backdropped by crater walls nearly 2,000 feet high, Ngorongoro offers the safari experience of a lifetime in a setting unmatched the world over. Observe profuse and diverse wildlife roaming freely in an authentic “Lost World,” where it’s possible to encounter every member of the Big Five in a single day. Afternoon, enjoy lunch al fresco in this UNESCO World Heritage Site. After lunch, short game drive, then we depart the crater ascend the walls of the Crater climbing up to the rim and begin our long drive back to Moshi/ Arusha to your hotel.
Day 7 Day 7: Departure
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 7: Departure

You will be transfer to the Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) to connect your flight back home.

7 days tour

Big 5 Safari - Mid-Range And Standard Safari Lodges,

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Itinerary of your trip Big 5 Safari - Mid-Range And Standard Safari Lodges,

Day 1: Arrival Date

Day 2: Moshi/Arusha To Tarangire National Park

Day 3: Serengeti National Park.

Day 4: Serengeti National Park

Day 5: Serengeti To Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Day 6: Ngorongoro Crater / Arusha/Moshi

Day 7: Departure

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