8 NIGHTS/9 DAYS SAFARI ARUSHA » MT. MERU » MT. KILIMANJARO
Day
01
On arrival to Kilimanjaro Airport
you are met by a Game Viewers Adventures representative
and transferred to hotel.
Day
2
In anticipation of the climb
ahead you acclimatise today you are taken around
the Arusha National Park in the foothills of majestic
Mount Meru.
Day
3
After breakfast drive from Arusha
to te slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro to begin the climb
up through forest terrain where you may see colobus
monkey and signs of elephant. Your first day's camp
is at an altitude of 10,000ft.
Day
4: Mount Kilimanjaro
Trek out
of the forest and up inot the Hagenia Zone, with
abundant bird life all around. Today's final destination
is the Shira Plateau where there is a camp at 12,500ft.
Day
5: Mount Kilimanjaro
Todays route
take us across the Shira Plateau, towards the Kibo
Masaif and through the grand Barranco Canyon to
spend the night at 13,000ft.
Day
6: Mount Kilimanjaro
A light day with just a ten hour trek along the
Barranco Clif to allows us time to rest and adjust
to increasingly higher altitudes. Dinner and overnight-
MARA SAROVA CAMP
Day
7: Mount Kilimanjaro
Another
short trek and day of acclimitisation as we near
the mountain's peak.
Day
8: Mount Kilimanjaro
Our day begins in the small hours
of the morning as we rise to start the final ascent
to Stella Point, at 18,630ft, on the rim of Kibo
Crater. Watch the sunrise and then continue around
the rim to Uhuru Peak (19,340ft); the air is rarefied
and the climb takes at least seven hours. We then
begin the descent to our last campsite on the mountain.
Day
9: Mount Kilimanjaro
Continue
descent to the base of the mountain where you arrive,
exhausted but exhilarated to meet our driver with
a picnic lunch and transport to Arusha. Transport
to the airport for departure back home..
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