10-Days: Mt. Kilimanjaro Short Trek: Wildlife Safari & Cultural Tour

You'll be met on arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport and transferred to your hotel in Moshi, right at the foot of the mountain, for a bed-and-breakfast overnight stay. It's a relaxed first day to settle in before the hiking and game drives begin.

After breakfast, you're picked up from your hotel in Moshi and driven to Marangu Gate, where you'll meet your professional Kilimanjaro guide and register for the day's climb. The hike heads up to Maudi Crater at roughly 3,000 meters above sea level, taking about seven hours round trip, with a picnic lunch along the way and sweeping views back over the plains. You're picked up at the gate around 5pm and driven to Arusha for the night — worth packing proper hiking shoes, sun protection, a light daypack and your camera.
 

After breakfast, you depart Arusha for a game drive in Tarangire National Park, breaking for a picnic lunch at 1pm before continuing with an afternoon game drive. You return in the evening for dinner and overnight.

After breakfast, you head from your lodge to Lake Manyara National Park for a game drive, breaking for a picnic lunch at 1pm before continuing into the afternoon. You return to the same lodge in the evening for dinner and overnight.
 

You transfer from Manyara to the Serengeti at 8am, arriving in time for a game drive, then break for lunch at a picnic area around 1pm before an afternoon game drive back toward camp for dinner and overnight.

Both days are spent entirely in the Serengeti's central and eastern acacia savannah, heading out after breakfast with a packed lunch for a full day of game driving. You break for a picnic lunch around midday, then continue with the afternoon game drive before returning to camp for dinner and overnight.
 

You pack up after an early breakfast and drive toward Ngorongoro, with game viewing along the way, then descend into the crater floor with a packed lunch. The crater is famously dense with wildlife, with different species holding their own territory across the floor, and you'll stop to eat near the Lerai forest or the hippo pool before ascending in the late afternoon and driving on to Karatu for dinner and overnight.

After an early breakfast, you drive to Lake Eyasi to spend time with the Hadzabe, one of Tanzania's last hunter-gatherer communities, joining them on a walking safari to observe traditional hunting techniques using bows and arrows. In the late afternoon, you head back to Arusha and drop off at your lodge for the night.

Depending on your flight time, you're transferred from Arusha to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your flight home.