Get Ready For An Amazing Adventure In Tanzania!

Have you ever dreamed of racing across the vast plains of the Serengeti in search of roaring lions and enormous elephants? Or is scaling the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro more your speed? With Gondwana Ecotours, you don’t have to choose! See Tanzania’s most exotic animals and summit the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro all in one fell swoop. With Gondwana’s Kilimanjaro and Serengeti tours, you can pack both adventures into one amazing trip!

A Trek To Remember

Africa’s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, draws thousands of visitors each year – all hoping to scale her sloping sides. While Kili is not classified as a technical trek, the altitude causes more than half of the hikers who attempt this climb to fail. However, with Gondwana Ecotours, your successful summit is guaranteed! Gondwana offers this trekking experience as part of its Kilimanjaro and Serengeti package. Hiking enthusiasts will tackle the Machame Route up Kilimanjaro over seven days, which offers them plenty of time to acclimate to altitude and boasts an excellent success rate.

Climbing to heights of 19,341 feet is truly a challenge, but the route is rewarding! The Machame route offers avid hikers the following:

• Incredible scenery;
• Non-technical terrain; and
• Light foot traffic.

Although the hike does not require any special gear, it is recommended that trekkers be in good shape before beginning the route! Your Gondwana guides will provide you with a packing list so that you bring the right items and will be with you every step of the way. You can opt for this incredible adventure before or after your safari, meaning your Kilimanjaro and Serengeti packages can be customized to fit your traveling needs. If you opt to climb Kilimanjaro before your safari, you’ll have one night at a four-star hotel to recover before you head off on a journey across the savannah to see Tanzania’s incredible wildlife.

A Safari-Goers Dream Trip Across The Serengeti

With Kilimanjaro and Serengeti tours, you get the thrill of summiting one of the tallest peaks in the world and seeing an incredible variety of native animals in their natural habitat. After your Kilimanjaro adventure, you can embark on a tour of Tanzania’s Northern Circuit, which includes stops in the following national parks: Arusha National Park, Tarangire National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Serengeti National Park. Enjoy eight days of adventure on the second leg of your Kilimanjaro and Serengeti package, taking in the wildlife and exploring the incredible expanse of the Tanzanian landscape!

Experience the best of Tanzania with Gondwana’s local guides. During your safari, you will experience the thrill of Tanzania at the following parks:

Serengeti Safari Stop #1: Arusha National Park

Located near the city of Arusha, this park provides visitors with great views of Mount Kilimanjaro! Despite the park’s small size, you’ll be able to spot giraffes, Cape buffalos, zebras, warthogs, black-and-white colobus monkeys, blue monkeys, flamingos, elephants, and bushbucks. Leopards also call Arusha National Park home, but they are more elusive and harder to see on a game drive. The park has a diversity of landscapes to explore – from lakes, waterfalls, and swamps to volcanos, mountains, and tropical rainforests! Birders especially will enjoy this part of Kilimanjaro and Serengeti tours, because Arusha’s lakes, rainforests, and swamps are home to a variety of native and migratory birds.

Serengeti Safari Stop #2: Tarangire National Park

If elephants are on your bucket list, make sure that your Kilimanjaro and Serengeti tour stops in Tarangire National Park! Tarangire is home to Tanzania’s largest population of elephants and this is undoubtedly one of the park’s largest attractions. However, the park’s unique landscape of towering baobab trees is also inhabited by vervet monkeys, large troops of baboons, wildebeests, zebras, giraffes, antelopes, elands, hippos, and the fringe-eared Oryx. Exploring this park is definitely a must-do for safari-goers, especially if you want to catch the park’s resident primates in their native habitat.

Serengeti Safari Stop #3: Ngorongoro Crater

This impressive and ancient crater is home to more than 25,000 of animals, and serves as one of the world’s only natural zoos! The crater’s 1,968-foot wall protects the animals and has allowed a unique ecosystem to flourish – forests, peaks, valleys, lakes, rivers, and plains. This wildlife sanctuary is a hot spot for visitors, where you can expect to see:

• Black rhinos
• Lions
• Leopards
• Elephants
• Buffalos
• Antelopes
• Zebras
• Wildebeests
• Cheetahs
• Jackals
• Impalas
• Bushbucks
• Elands
• Hartbeests
• Waterbucks
• Kudu
• Hippos
• Hyenas

Ngorongoro is one of the most densely populated conservation areas in Africa and is part of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. When visiting the crater, you may also see nomadic Maasai tribe members, who are permitted to practice traditional livestock grazing in the area.

Serengeti Safari Stop #4: Serengeti National Park

The grand finale of Kilimanjaro and Serengeti tours is – drumroll, please! You guessed it - the Serengeti National Park. The Serengeti is most famous for its annual wildebeest migration, which is a cyclical event involving more than 200,000 animals surging across the great plains in search of fresh grazing grounds. Predators follow the animals as they make their way across the Serengeti, past the Ngorongoro Crater, across the Mara River, and into Kenya before returning to Tanzania. If you’re planning a safari in Serengeti National Park, timing your visit for the annual great migration means you will be a witness to this grand spectacle. Of course, you will also be able to see lions, leopards, elephants, buffalo, gazelles, impala, kongoni, topi, and eland as well as serval cats, jackals, and the African wild dog. Visitors may come for the Great Migration, but they’ll find plenty of wildlife to see once the great herd has made its way through the park!

Additional Safari Adventures With Gondwana

Your adventure with Gondwana doesn’t stop with scaling Kilimanjaro’s summit or spotting wildlife along the Northern Circuit. You’ll also have the opportunity to visit a Maasai village and meet with the Maasai people. Learn more about this tribe’s culture, way of life, crafts, and traditions during the visit, and take a walk with them across a pasture they use to graze their animals. Enjoy a truly immersive experience that will only enhance your Kilimanjaro and Serengeti package, and enjoy this unique cultural exchange where you can cultivate memories for a lifetime.

A Tanzanian Tour Of A Lifetime!

Kilimanjaro and Serengeti tours are once-in-a-lifetime experiences, so why not make the most of yours? Book with Gondwana Ecotours today for a truly unique experience that will have you looking out across the landscape from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, searching the Serengeti for Tanzania’s Big Five, and mingling with local tribes to learn more about their daily life. From the summit of enormous mountains to the floors of craters, a trip across Tanzania means uncovering more adventure than you could ever imagine.